They ask me questions

Why do you smell so funny

They don’t seem to understand

Why can’t you just say something

They don’t seem to know

I tug my stained red scarf real close

This is stained by the blood of the chinese soldiers

My teacher told me

If you wear this, you must be brave

My throat closes in

painted faces with golden hair

Blue eyes

Stare at my foreign face so curiously 

Flop

My red stained scarf falls off

Why can’t they understand

My voice can’t speak without an accent

I smell of the streets of my hometown

Please just understand me

Please just care

At night my tears would fall

You have the strength of 100 soldiers