WHO IS A REFUGEE?

WHO IS A REFUGEE?

Here I am in
A strange place
Working out
Why I am here

Questioning myself
Why I left
Leaving loved ones
Very bereft

People call me
Refugee or alien
‘coz my face
And language looks
And sounds foreign

Farewell family
And friends
I’m going away
On a strange voyage
Where I might be seen
As unique and strange

I know not
What I will find there
But destiny beckons me
That I take this venture

I hail those pioneers
Who sought new adventure

People say
The roads there
Are paved with gold nuggets

But what I saw
Are young people
With Colourful IPods

I was eyed strangely
With wicked eyes
And told to go back
To my place

But my reply is
I am not here to relax
'coz I am working
And paying tax