On a margin of a forgotten camp
With pain we want to live
With sadness
With agony
With traumas
We want to live
With or without food
We want to live
With thirst
With enemies or without them
We still want to live
Under a cut in a tent with every drop of rain at night we want to live
We want to live
At the long queues for clothes we want to live
With every step we take towards the journey of death
We want to live
With every tree we pass
With every pride swallowed, we want to live
With or without our children
We want to live
With or without our parents
We want to live
We want to live, simply because we love life.
This has been published in collaboration with Hikayetna – Stories from Syria, Hope, and Optimism For Refugees.
Amir Darwish is a British Syrian poet and writer of Kurdish origin. He was born in Aleppo and later arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker in 2003. Amir completed an MA from Durham University before moving to London, where he currently lives & writes. He has published his work in the UK, USA, Pakistan, India, Finland, Turkey, and Mexico. He tweets at @darwish_amir.
Amir Darwish is a British Syrian poet and writer of Kurdish origin. He was born in Aleppo and later arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker in 2003. Amir completed an MA from Durham University before moving to London, where he currently lives & writes. He has published his work in the UK, USA, Pakistan, India, Finland, Turkey, and Mexico.
