a white man

with a guitar

strolled up to me and said, 

"let me guess - 

filipina?"

as if I were

a trivia game

and when I said, 

"no"

he heard an invitation 

to keep guessing

all of the countries

from that side of the map. 

miss you the most

when i detach 

from my roots

when we're on

opposite sides

of a country home 

to neither of us.