Where Do you Go When Nowhere Is safe?

 

Small kids carrying backpacks filled with
fear and uncertainty.

Even the four walls they call home, isn’t a fortress
designed to protect them.

Where do you go when nowhere is safe?
 

They sit patiently by their windows,
watching the sunrise from caged eyes,
while sunflowers bloom from their palms.

Where do you go when nowhere is safe,
other than your mind.
 

      N.M. Elmi