"Uniquely Me"
I am
a confusion of cultures.
Uniquely me.
I think this is good
because I can understand
the traveler, sojourner, foreigner,
the homesickness that comes.
I think this is also bad
because I cannot be understood
by the person who has sown
and grown in one place.
They know not the real meaning of homesickness
that hits me
now and then.
Sometimes I despair
of understanding them.
I am
an island
and
a United Nations.
Who can recognize either in me
but God?
~ Alex Graham James, Third Culture Kids
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