I would say answer this yourself because this is a question that you need to answer from your own perspective but if I would have to answer this I'd say " my mother has us living where we are because she feels safe and that we are safe but in the long run I will never have a home and that's that."
It's certainly sensory. And it's figurative too. I think I'd pick figurative because the central piece of language is a simile. That's pretty good use of language when you compare the bobbing heads of flowers to helmeted soldiers.
