Daily Poem Entries

Refugee

Refugee

Racked upon the shelves of history
Evidence of lives destroyed
Flung upon the desperate highways
Under threat of death and worse
Gone from home and livelihood
Every hand a suitcase clutching
Existence shrinks to these few things.


Line count: 7
Form: Acrostic
For The Daily Poem, 02.06.26
Prompt: Write an acrostic using the word that occurs with the illustration of stacked suitcases (in my case - refugee).