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Immigrant


 

Foreign to this place

But they do know

You look different

Too delicate and dainty

You speak different

They catch the southern twang

You behave different

Too much decorum and grace

You are smarter

Only nerds would take those classes otherwise

They refuse to look past that

Because she just cannot fit in

No one ever sees past her difference

But she wishes the just would

If only they could

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