Sabaydii,

 

Here is the continuation of a series ‘Coming home’ entitled ‘Wandering I am’

 

Hakphaang,

 

Wandering around the world

With no place to call home

Why is it so hard

To be a Lao?

A country not that small

But not an inch for me

 

Am I that bad

The motherland won’t take me back?

What did I do wrong?

Being on another side of the fence

Having a parent from the old regime?

 

They say

Muang Lao is better off

Without people like me

Let the like of me

Rot in other land

For they alone know

What’s the best for Muang Lao

 

Let me ask

The little of Lao history I know

Is it the way

Our ancestors did?

Getting rid of their own people?

 

Or our ancestors were just

A bunch of idiots

Not knowing how to enrich themselves?

 

Oh Lao of the new

How you came to mislead yourself

You are the one

The savior of this land

Is beyond me

 

Or an alien ideology you profess

Is enough in itself?

 

Wandering I did

All LaoNork[1] around the world

When will it be the time to rest our tired bodies?

I don’t know

 

9.22.03