My Life in Refugee Camp

My Life in Refugee Camp

I look back at my pain

I wonder where I came from

My blood hails from Arakan state

Where my family was born freely 

My home was burnt down to the ground

And now has became a paddy field 

I became a refugee without any identity

Where a human's rights are barely present 

The mind is constantly in fear

The heart cries for peace and harmony

The stomach suffers from starvation

Long days and nights are counted

I deserve peace like every human being

I'm a refugee with infinite patience 

I'm stateless under the same sky

I don't feel like I have enough of a human's worth 

because I'm a refugee.

Even animals have identity name

But why am I lacking it?

My life in a refugee camp,

With heartache and immense burden,

Feelings of insecurity and fear.

I feel jealous of other fellow citizens

I'm lacking it, being the same human though 

I yearn for my freedom and rights

In my country where I was born

I'm not hungry for rations

I'm hungry for my freedom and peace.

_ Mohammed Arshad Amin