When Everything Is Taken Away
I am just a human being.
I never wanted to harm anyone.
I never wished suffering upon others.
Yet here I am—standing in the ruins of what used to be my home.
My house, my neighbors’ homes, my memories—destroyed by war.
Explosions, bullets, fear.
In a single moment, everything was turned into dust.
Now we live in an evacuation center.
No home.
No belongings.
No sense of certainty about tomorrow.
Sometimes I ask myself:
Why me?
Why my village?
Why innocent people who only wanted to live in peace?
I wonder if I am being punished.
If in a past life I committed sins so great that I must suffer now.
If God is teaching me a cruel lesson through loss and pain.
But I am not a soldier.
I am not a criminal.
I am just a person who wanted a simple life.
It feels like the world has forgotten us.
Like our tears are too small to matter.
Like our suffering is invisible.
Yet even in this darkness, I am still breathing.
Still hoping.
Still human.
And even though everything seems lost,
I pray that one day
our pain will be seen,
our voices will be heard,
and our lives will be rebuilt
from the ashes of what was taken away.