A Tent Poem by MOHAMMAD SKATI

A man-made house For a permanent resident or For a hard life of a poor refugee Living with rattle snakes and with poisonous scorpions For ever and ever until going to the grave, It is the tent that symbolizes misery and hard life In our time without any hope for a better life, It is the symbol of shame in our current world And it is the symbol of oblivion of good refugees everywhere, then It is the real symbol of our time.