A Door Please!

This poem is inspired by the recent tragic events relating to asylum seekers in Australia.
Published in Eureka Street  on 2 April 2013 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=35718

A Door Please!
By Saba Hakim

I live in a house

With no doors

No windows

No roof

A pigeon dropped me in

It promised me a door

But in this house

I found no doors

No windows

No roof

I see the rainbow in the sky

I shout for help

No one hears

There are no doors to their ears

I climb the walls

Up ... up...up...

To the roofless top

I try

I fall

I break

I cry

No one sees me fall or cry

There are no windows to their eyes

Tomorrow come, hurry please

Before the rainbow disappears

And all that’s left for me to do

Is breathe...