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I miss my melancholy

My melancholy changes daily and I miss it.

One day I feel something heavy like a mountain on my heart.

The next it is a knot in my throat.

On another, it is a river in my eyes.

Then a sweet dream in my mind.

The melancholy that grows old and tall alongside me

And now in my youth

Among strangers and sorrows

I live behind the bars of sadness

In a foreign world.

Yes I live here.

The cause for melancholy these days

Is the uncertainty.

Uncertainty for the future.

But I think about my childhood …

My name is Mohammad Mehdi Hossaini. I’m 16 years-old from Kandahar.
I live in Athens in the Schisto refugee camp. My dream is for everyone to be free of their sorrows and to rediscover the joy and peace they are looking for.
I want to become a neurosurgeon.

Mohammad Mahdi Hossaini

Young Journalists

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