The Many Faces and The Border

 

We have no border that links from country to country like America and Mexico, South Korea and North Korea or any other countries that need the security that separates them from other nations. We have no border that requires inspections of your car's compartments and even under-hood, checking your baggage, examining the other package that you have on you while you're on travel and may jeopardize the nation's security and others.

We are free from any borders of our neighboring country. No necessary papers to check up on. Anyone can easily penetrate our place because our security is not as strict as in developed countries like the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, etc. Even some of the extremists can pass the sea without noticing it via by boats coming from the four corners of the sea with the help from the relatives and friends of the same conviction.

Millions upon millions of people crosses borders every day. In the recent news such as the Syrian refugees managed to cross the borders from different countries to name a few like France, Germany and others. Their faces reminded us of the  conditions in their own place, a country devastated by terrorist, rebels and the terrorists with no future to look upon, has no hope and undetermined status quo that will lead them into destitution and poverty more than the informal settlers here in my country, the Philippines.

These faces are people from walks of life. They are families, father, mother, husband, mother, brother, sister who aimlessly drifts from border to border, fleeing the bombed-out country. There are bad elements in the world who take this opportunity to mix themselves into the horde, such as terrorists, whether international or local who like to terrorize with massive explosives like human bombs, or plant a bomb anywhere in a busy district or commercial place just to carry out their plan. Innocent people are left for dead or injured.

Some refugees are considering to permanently leave their country, or if they are lucky they can find a new place or temporarily stay in a neighbouring country which is happening now or will happen again in the future. There is always a political outcry that some countries are harbouring terrorists, extremists and the like. I was wondering why some of their comrades or any country in the Arab world to protect their own (terrorist/rebel brothers (if this is true that they are cuddling terrorists or rebels). The condition of the refugee can be a depressing to see. Even their brothers who are in other parts of the world are having a hard time helping them. They didn't ask for this to happen to them, but what they want now are trying to survive and make a living, if this is possible, even if they are in another country where their future is hanging by a thread not knowing if they can exist there.

The refugees who run for their lives and left their country only wanting to live in peace and to have a better life. But with the conflict in their country no one knows for sure how long it will take to settle the dust. Will they then have the possibility to return to their homeland safe and sound again? We may never know, we can only speculate how life will treat them in the next decades to come. 

San Mateo, Rizal
September 14, 2017

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