We Are All Refugees

by Nancy Gerber

We are all refugees.

For who are we

if not seekers

of asylum

from the ghosts

of the past?

We all need

shelter, a place

to call home

as we cast our lines

toward

the distant horizon.

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This poem is excerpted with permission from the author’s poetry chapbook, We Are All Refugees (New Feral Press, 2017). For more information or to order copies please contact Nancy Gerber at nancygerber79@gmail.com. The author wishes to thank Beate Sigriddaughter for her support.

Nancy Gerber writes fiction, poetry, and essays. Her most recent book, A Way Out of Nowhere (Big Table Publishing), is a collection of short stories featuring female protagonists negotiating the complexities of relationships; it is available on Amazon.