Stuck in Not-so-Wonderful-Land
October 13, 2020
Something you should know
I am not from here
Big house, small town, quiet days and night
Same faces, same places, same racists
Foreign
It feels like I’m on a long, unwanted, forced vacation Never ending
I want to go home so bad
Something you should know
I was raised in a big city
Where families of 7 share one bedroom apartments And nothing was ever quiet about it
Home
The city where the people never sleep
Repeating routines, rushing to the streets
Same hectic days, but never the same faces
Bodegas found at each corner with the constant commands, “yo lemme get a baconeggandcheese”
And yeah, it’s one word
Something you should know
The Bronx is mistaken for its dirtiness yet it’s the borough made up of only love and community
Brooklyn known for keeping it’s charms that the people keep alive
Manhattan being the center of attention, busiest of them all, crawling with bodies from different lands, where skyscrapers shine better at night
Queens is the largest and for that we thank her for the city’s richest flavors
And then there’s Staten Island which ain’t even count as a borough
Growing up I didn’t think it was that bad here
My parents thought otherwise
It’s what’s best for my future they said
So here I am
Alice in Wonderland
Something you should know
It isn’t as wonderful as I thought I’d be
But
Something I should know
Sometimes it’s not too bad
At night I can look up
Admire the star freckled sky
Maybe catch a shooting star and wish that one day I’ll go back to where my heart belongs