Running

You,

Exile of the motherland,

Child of diaspora and asylum,

Running.

Tongue-tied with foreign eloquence,

Mistake words for wisdom

Tracing scars,

Running.

Need all of the globe to trace where your family went,

Need more soil than what runs through your fingers to bury their bodies.

Child of four languages and three countries, running.

Running.

Written by Dr Muna Abdi