Goodbye Immigration Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Welcome?

Send me your tired and poor
Says the lady with the lamp
A symbolic marker
Of where to come camp

Come to the land of the free
We have much...

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Escaping grinding poverty
And violent crimes
You left scant existence
Holding your Dad's hand
In the middle of the night
Going on a long journey
Dreaming of a free land

Miles and...

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Only my soul see the seasons when I am alone  
Wearing the camouflage of a mocking frown, 
The frock grows longer when I am...

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Back against the wall 
blasted on a canvas 
camouflaged trigger thoughts
subliminal mind control 
incase you wonder who you are
bags beneath my eyes 
followed an illusion
on...

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Going to America

“One’s country is the country where one fares best.”
Greek Proverb

It was from there to here
Nowhere near, my dear
And, from here to there
It would...

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You were born here,
and so you own it.
You've done so much,
to make it yours.

You've built rocky mountains,
You've dug grand canyons,
forged great lakes from ice,
tamed the...

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My new home is in a new country.
I know very little of the language and culture.
Memories of my old country will be in my heart...

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