The Migration of Survival

Fleeing your home for survival
you travel as one
in the same direction:
a mass exodus.

Roads, highways, side streets
are full to bursting
in an endless line of traffic,
moving, though not fast enough.

An occasional lone car
passes you with reckless abandon
looking lost and small.

Your homes sit empty
awaiting the impending doom
that must have driven you away.

Survival made you flee,
the finance to survive.
And as the sun fails in the west
another survival will drive you home:
mental health and a chance to rest.