Dear Palestine,

Today marks 20 years of me living in another place, in a strange world surrounded by strange people who don't talk my words or act like me. When will this end? when will you let me come and be between my family again. I wake up everyday with this painful feeling in my heart, a feeling that only us, who were forcibly kicked out of our homeland feel, isolation, loneliness, feeling like you do not belong, and I have been experiencing this everyday, every morning, for the past 20 years. Is it too much to ask for? Is it too much to ask to return to my home, return to my people, and be happy again? But I haven't lost hope, and I will keep dreaming of the day that we will meet, how sunny it will be, surrounded by the sea and the people of my land, happy, singing and dancing. I only pray for it to happen soon.

Yours truly,
L