Swept by the tides away from shore
Swept to a place unrest and storm
As I look around I see others
Others with smiles colder than the sea
Others with words harsher than the waves
Others that tore my identity away
I find myself looking for a rope to hold on to
I look for my country
I'm cast for being the minority
I look outside it
And I am a foreigner
One that needs their religion to be torn
I search for a way to float helplessly
For hands to pull me above
Yet instead
Tides held me down
I look for family
To see a time I have no family
Nor siblings there with me
I look for help from people
They laugh and tell me to ask the one I worship
As I am pushed further in
I ask ones from my country
They say I deserve it as I wasn't a believer of theirs
They tell me to join the ones I believe in
I look at the ones that share many things with me
But the bridge formed by politics seem to cage me away
A child of man
Hated by many
Searching for people
Ones that will care for me
And in doing so I conceal
I become one without identity
I conceal every fact about me
I am hidden behind screens
Silent about the details
Afraid of facing the world
As I have a marker I can never hide outside
I allow the waves to ring
December 15th, 2018
