Projects: Innocents: I Am Waiting for you Mama

I am looking impatiently all around me 

And I am saying to my heart, 

“She will come; she will come.” 

But with every new day 

My hope from the past night dies. 

She remained on the other side 

Where people are not people anymore. 

Where every day there is suffering 

And everyone is threatened with extinction. 

I go to sleep at night in my tears 

Making a list of old memories in my head. 

I came here to save my life 

And I left my mother to suffer there. 

Still my mother’s time will come 

When all people will stand together 

Then happy, I will go home to Doboj 

And fall upon her beloved breast. 

Ramiza Ahmetovic, 14 

Doboj, Bosnia