Refugee

Refugee

Should I wear a yellow R

Embroidered on my shirt?

A number tattooed on my arm

Beneath the blood and dirt?

I am Muslim, Catholic, Jew,

I’m child of every time

I’ve run from famine, rape and war

Displacement is my crime.

I’m faceless, stateless, of no worth

A number on a screen

I am a victim of my birth

My hunger is obscene

My father is a genocide

My mother is a drought

My lover dare not speak their name

My motives are ‘in doubt’

But I am every one of us

In every history

Your conscience is my DNA

For I am Refugee.