no place to go - quotes and descriptions to inspire creative writing

If you had no place to go, what would your SOS look like? How would you communicate your pain to the world community? What response could you expect?

The news article was so personal. I could see her as easily as my own sister, standing there in that war. She had nothing. No safety. No right to food or home. No place to go. If I was there I could call out her name and she would turn and see me. But what would she see? Help? Judgement? Pity? Refuge? A chance to survive the hell she'd been catapulted into? And here I am in my home - warm, safe and fed. There by the grace of God go I.