Literary Lights Writes: Elsewhere

Zion Lights is a writer, poet and social entrepreneur. This week on the PRSD we have poem Elsewhere

I grew up in a country of

fish & chips

& 9 to 5.

With jet back hair and almond skin

I stood out sorely at school,

at work,

in the street.

.

I waited to visit that place, elsewhere,

Which my parents always spoke of.

The place where I would fit in.

.

Now I’m here,

And I did not grow with this country of

chappatis & dahl

& ooh-rahs & air-rahs.

.

I stand out sorely at work,

on the bus,

in the street,

With my too-short hair and my too-beige skin.

.

‘Western immigrant’, they whisper.

It reminds me of that place,

Where I grew up,

Elsewhere.