Must be difficult, to break all ties <br />To separate the truth from the lies <br />Of your comforting cradle of birth <br />Toward a far land, set forth. <br /> <br />Must be difficult, to unlearn <br />Everything you once knew <br />The new speedily in your mind burn <br />A different thinking accept as true <br /> <br />Must be difficult, to get used <br />To faces white and black <br />To wish self-protective skills fused <br />Master the alien with an easy knack <br /> <br />Must be difficult, more than the ways <br />To tragically leave behind <br />The feel of rainy tropical days <br />Neighbors and friends kind <br /> <br />Must be difficult, to restart <br />From the bottom of the ladder <br />With your strange foreign ways part <br />Keep the homesickness from making you sadder <br /> <br />But, yet you do it <br />With great joy and pain <br />To keep the internal fire you once lit <br />And pursue happiness, not in vain<br /><br />Madam Anonymous<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-immigrant-hymn/
