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Finding my Way
ISSUE #16
Author: SparksInTheNight
Finding my Way
Author: SparksInTheNight
ISSUE #16
Biological Essentialism
No Plagiarism!0AIvGl45qR4SmU7xlCPOposted on PＥNAＮＡ

I'm an immigrant

Not by choice

By ending up here

Somehow

I grew up here

Spent my life here

Went to school here

Worked here

Played here

Laughed here

Cried here

Screamed here

Loved here

Lost here

If you think I don't belong here I can't argue

I won't argue with that

I hate everyone here including me and our exploitativeness and our greed and our apathy

And I'm definitely on the list of people I hate

This is a fact

I'm not a hero

I will never be

And if you say I don't belong here I'll take that as a compliment though it's false

But anyways

I have nowhere else where I belong either

I really just don't

I literally don't

I don't mind

I don't care

There's nothing as freeing

As defining your belonging based on your actions and not your origin

And belonging based on shared experience not based on origin

———

If you like this piece check out my Mastodon my account is [email protected] and I post about human rights, social justice, and the environment. 

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Finding my Way
Poetry
Last updated: Jun 7, 2024
Total word count: 3,651
Total reading time: 17 Minutes
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