Conversation with nature

If you break an ocean into two
each will find its way through
back into
one another.
I am you
you are me
we are on our way to being one.

30

wild 20
tired 40?
ask me to choose
and I'll say 30
the age to be
content and on fire
sane energies and desire
memories to sleep with
motivation to rise
serve the cocktail
of wisdom and charm
30 is an ocean wave
bustling and calm

immigrant

i
left
my war-torn country
crossing borders
hoping to save
my withering destiny.
a refugee
wanting a new life
or just life!
a home
where my wife and sons live today.
i learnt a lesson
a message to the world
if it cares to listen:
people are different and still the same
wanting the same things-
food love home
four walls do not define a home
homeland is not always home
for when 16 years later
I saw my country again
I found out it had left me too.
I stood as an immigrant
in my country of birth
wanting to be back home
to my family my country.

- based on the story of my Iranian friend/colleague who came to Germany as a refugee in 1982.