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December 6, 2019
They ask me questions
Why do you smell so funny
They don’t seem to understand
Why can’t you just say something
They don’t seem to know
I tug my stained red scarf real close
This is stained by the blood of the chinese soldiers
My teacher told me
If you wear this, you must be brave
My throat closes in
painted faces with golden hair
Blue eyes
Stare at my foreign face so curiously
Flop
My red stained scarf falls off
Why can’t they understand
My voice can’t speak without an accent
I smell of the streets of my hometown
Please just understand me
Please just care
At night my tears would fall
You have the strength of 100 soldiers
© Emily O., Boynton Beach, FL
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