With new eyes they ogle me,
As if I am an animal
As if, without the bars between us,
I would attack them.
As if I committed a crime, a criminal.
A fence between us, their screams repeat,
Over and over,
"Get out of this house!!"
Not a single encouraging word,
From any quarter.
I dreamed,
At first of North, of leaving,
But then bigger dreams,
Dreams they did not like,
Dreams that could not, must not be.
Nobody seemed to know.
Between us was a distance, a suspiciousness,
Instead of the acceptance I had expected,
I was cutt off from them,
Forsaken,
More completely than ever.
