"Other"
Naked fear, flowing from
a hurt,
broken place.
Decades of mistreatment.
Raw sacrifice.
Leaving everything.
Everyone.
Only to be “Other”
in a foreign land.
Each day, bitting
your tongue.
Each night, escaping
home.
A fortress
surrounded
in an unfamiliar sea.
Walls fortified
with transgressions.
Silently perpetuating
history’s divides.
