DADAAB isn't a refugee!!!

can you hear it ?

listen closely !!!

can you hear the heavy breathing

of those running from hell ?

isn't hell what drives people

to gather what left of their strength!

to embrace a journey taking them

down the road of death!

road infested with darkness

and the  humming  of the scavengers

where there is no rain , no trees ,

no shades , no summer breeze

or romantic nights

road paved with  agony

and the only choices left there

are the hard ones or death

despite all of that

the seekers don't

show any sign of fear

there is no smile left

in their pockets to spend

or a tear

keep walking and don't look back

there is no grief or burial

for those who can't survive

and the prayers are locked

in the dark allies of the heart

there are no loved ones

on the road of death

there are only hard choices or death

so keep walking until you survive

and what you get ?!!

DADAAB  is the prize!!!

as ironically as  it seems 

that the ends are like the beginnings

that death has many names and means

death has many names and means

N.B : DADAAB is designed for 90,000 but it hosts more than 300,000 before this crisis and u can imagine with this crisis still the aid organization insists on using it ..total disaster.

A silent genocide. 2004-2009 Dadaab refugeecamp - 90 kilometers from the somali border. the world biggest refugeecamp with apx. 300.000 people living there. a small girl collecting drinking water and brining it back to her family. NOOR

Ismail A. Ali

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