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.