Of all the Options
I go through in my head
while lying awake in my bed,
‘Returning to My Country’
always made the cut…
Only until recently,
when the feeling of other-ness,
which some people talked about,
but I never believed existed,
manifested itself into Acts made and Bills passed,
for the likes of me to be purged from the land.
Forcing us to prove loyalty.
Scrambling us to provide documents,
proving that we indeed existed.