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Same Eyes, Different View by Indigo Willing
Same eyes, different
view
I so much
want to
look like I belong to you
In your
Vietnamese eyes do I have a similar face
Are our
bodies
identified as same by a visual 'race'
But behind my
eyes is a white puzzled gaze
Built from a
white upbringing and western ways
And
Vietnamese
language, I don't know
I wasn't even
aware that pho doesn't rhyme with go
But I've come
home to find a sense of family that I feel I've lost
And I cling
to
this hope through much emotional struggle and cost
I'm visiting
Vietnam for Tet and don't know if I belong
So many
cultural
misunderstandings make me feel wrong
An orphan
with no
family relying on strangers to be kind
I fear I
don't
really know what or who I want to find
I've returned
to
Saigon, part excitement and part fear
Chuc Mung Nam
Moi
or Happy New Year
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