Peace and Justice Post

My Home, My Home!

My Home, My Home! New York       Cesar Chelala My home, I want to come back to my home I don’t care how broken it stands; I just want a single wall  and I will rebuild it, says the old man, a grandfather of three sons, five grandchildren “I want to restart my family,” he pleads –he doesn’t know, he cannot know— that both his house and his family  no longer exist. He sits by the roadside,  on a rock beneath a silent sky, and weeps.  Exhausted, he curls into sleep, a small bag –all his belongings–  clutched to his chest. Yet he is a man of resolve. He will go back and start all over again, but he will have to do it alone, the last survivor of a vanished home. So many dreams crushed, so many lives that are no more.   Cesar Chelala, a New York writer, is a co-winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award, and two national journalism awards from Argentina. Illustration by Paola Bilancieri

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