away from home

i know you're far away from home

and maybe at this point you've forgotten what it will be like if you go back

if you can even go back

or maybe you don't want to go back,

maybe you think you will no longer be accepted

or maybe it's just so suffocating!

the mothers the fathers the uncles the brothers

all breathing on your

neck

telling you to be like that

but you don't want to be like that

you want to stay here, away from there

but what is here? what is here?

do these ones even understand you? 

i see you swallow, then think

you always have to take a second before you

speak

it's like you want to get it out, it's right there

and you look at me with eyes imploring

understand me

my friend,

my wonderful friend.

i do.

you see, to me, you're a hero

words are a mere thirds of vernacular

and this land is foreign to me too.