To answer my question
An Indigenous teacher
Once told me
If you know who you are
You will never be lonely
I didn’t understand
White, I grew up
In bland, blanched suburbia
Moved to
A small, rural town
We people were the entertainment
The gravitas
Friends
Porch sitting hours
Moved to
A hip, slick, cultured, sophisticated, city of universities
America’s Athens
Loneliness, assimilation, knowledge, alienation from self
Moved to
A wealthy, beach retirement town
Boredom, self-discovery, self-recovery
Toured foreign countries
Europe and the roots of Western Civilization
Meso-America, Maya
Tropical Island
I am
Wherever I go
I understand
David Fekete 