culturally deprived, my language lost
in time, maybe possibly unlikely
to be found on foreign soil,
bound between foreign trees,
soaring in foreign skies
like birds of other kinds;
culturally deprived, my identity lost
in space, maybe possibly unlikely
to be found in foreign lands,
nailed to foreign walls,
stamped into passport in blue
like red without a union flag;
culturally deprived, a self lost
in otherness, maybe
possibly
unlikely
– ever to be found.