Never Whole

I dig my toes into the sand, breathe the air of my fatherland, salt air holds a sense of healing, too long, I've waited for this feeling. Now I'm on a mountainside, snowflakes drifting in my eyes, the air is crisp, the view is grand, too long, I've missed my motherland. My life's a droll dichotomy, half my heart across the sea, Southern born, yet Alpine bred, white cross on a flag of red. Divided always, never whole, two homelands tear apart my soul, a Southern girl, also half-Swiss, can never find the place I fit. Back and forth 'cross oceans roam, no place ever feels like home, in my dreams, my german's fluent, all my life's been incongruent.