We Are All Refugees Poem by Wilson Khor W.H.

We are all refugees.

We constantly move
from place to place,
time to time,
age to age,
life to death.

We constantly seek
for a better place,
a better self,
a better reason,
a better meaning

for our existential
existence.

We are all refugees.
We have no homes.
We never belong.
Change
is our only permanence.

May we
who constantly run,
constantly struggle,
constantly hope,
for a moment's respite
away from life's battles
someday realise
in our transition of ideas
to never again
turn away

pleas for a home
for a roof over their heads
for a chance at life anew
for we too, are all refugees
who have braved our own oceans

but just slightly better off
only because we stumbled
upon the doorsteps of life's mercies
just a little bit
earlier.