Fourth Edit: The Loneliest Feeling

[dukealien]

the loneliest feeling

i feel
like a hungry refugee in a tent

behind my eyes
is a mix
of fear, rage and self-loathing  perfect analysis
and when i ask myself why
the only answer is nowhere  hope this means can't find the answer, otherwise is opaque

my eyes look desperate
my future is measured numerically
by those who kiss their wives before bed
those who tell their children
the world is fair
those who refuse
to look me in my eyes  excellent line:  avoids cliche "in the eye" and sounds like a too-literal translation of a foreign-language idiom

i blink
and the simile ends  "simile" seems wrong to me here:  "I feel like x" is an English idiom not really related to use of "like" in a simile (x is like y); better dream, seance, vision?
i lie next to my wife
my child safely dreams in the next room
and my empathy
denied entry based on ethnicity killer last line

Very effective and (I would say) needed concept.  My likes and reservations above; the parallelism between the last two stanzas may be a bit too close, though it speaks to the narrator reflecting himself in the refugee's (envisioned) thoughts rather than envisioning the refugee's actual thoughts... the refugee may, for example, actually be a fatalist.

Very, very good without being maudlin as is too often the case when considering refugees and other migrants.  The title is a bit odd  unless we think of the narrator as being lonely because he lacks empathy, but other interpretations are possible.