Where are you from?

                                                         Photo by Avery Cocozziello
  

                                        After a bad night's sleep

                                        her accent betrayed her,

                                         a suspicious look thrown at her

                                        along with the dreaded question.

                                      Her identity is a construction

                                               of bits and pieces,

                                      a mosaic of memories and dreams

                                      that perish inside a question mark.

                                      She belongs to an outsider's land

                                          sheltered by her imagination.

Note: this poem was initially published in 2014 in an online journal called Black Mirror Magazine.