Atikah Faur

While reading this poem written by a thirteen-year-old Syrian girl, Amineh Abou Kerech who survived the Syrian war, I was at complete loss for words. I cried my heart out by reading twice her simple words explaining at best our before-war simple but peaceful life. Like her I have also lived as a refugee for two and half years before finally getting a place to live in England. I know how terrified we were in those days...  To Syria I want to say you will be forever in our hearts. Lament for Syria by Amineh Abou Kerech Syrian doves croon above my head their call cries in my eyes. I’m trying to design a country that will go with my poetry and not get in the way when I’m thinking, where soldiers don’t walk over my face. I’m trying to design a country which will be worthy of me if I’m ever a poet and make allowances if I burst into tears. I’m trying to design a City of Love, Peace, Concord and Virtue, free of mess, war, wreckage and misery. * Oh Syria, my love I hear yo...

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