Asylum Seekers

Huge numbers  of youths - so just who are these
Who proclaim to the world  that they're all refugees,
Forced by the terrors and tortures at home
To leave their own lands and to Europe to roam?
And yet in most cases you'll probably find
Their wives and their mothers are all left behind
To face all the horrors the young men will not.
Where torture or rape or death may be their lot,
Surely no decent young man would ignore
His duty to send on his family before
He himself left, thus ensuring that they
Would have the best chance to get safely away,
And while they faced danger they all could depend
On him there protecting them right to the end.
Or is the truth possibly most of them are
Just young men who've made their way here from afar
Seeking to live in a much richer place
And all the good things Europe offers embrace?
Of course when one looks at them all it is clear
Some from among them have fled here in fear
And cannot go back to their previous state
Where they were the victims of violence and hate.
But those who have genuinely been forced to flee
Will likely be part of a whole family,
Not single young men, who could well stay and fight
And work at improving their own country's plight.