i too would run

I never fully understood. 

Not as a lawyer: not even as I fought hard and strong 
for their rights. 

I mean, how do you leave?  

How do you cross seas on boats that don't even
withstand calm weather; or deserts in the scorching heat?

How do you flee in the middle of the night?
How do you defect? How, admit defeat?

How? It doesn't matter how. 

I too would run, now, from indefinite military service, civil unrest, 
war. From Libya, Syria, Eritrea, Russia or Ukraine. From Sudan.  

I too would run, and how. 
For I am now a mother, and
I am a mother of two sons now.