Bring Down The WallsI will bring down the wallsthat surround me today.I will no longer be kept quietMeek enough to drown today....

~ Muse

Muse Belitted Confidence Confident Displaced Doubt Endurance Growth Mocked Naysayers Never Give Up Overcome Poem Poetry Power Prose Self Worth Steadfast Strength

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

~ Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch Astrid Displaced Home Never Paul

For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi Displaced Hannah Lillith Assadi Home Refugees Sonora Transport

You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come to the desert are those who know this, deep inside of them, we are from up there. From far, far away.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi Desert Displaced Far Away Hannah Lillith Assadi Refugees Setting Sonora Space Stars

I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us.'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi Displaced Galaxies Galaxy Hannah Lillith Assadi Outcast Sonora Stars

I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi Displaced Galaxies Hannah Lillith Assadi Metaphor Nowhere Refugee Sonora