I feel like I am in a VERY foreign country
With everyone speaking a language I do not understand
Even though I can tell it's English
And I know the individual words
I cannot understand
I cannot comprehend the meaning behind the sounds
I find myself struggling
And it takes a great effort to be aware of the meaning
And even then, not much do I learn to comprehend.
My own language I understand
When I speak, and think, and write
It seems intelligible
Why, then, this feeling of being lost in my own home?
The sensation of wandering through a maze that is really a straight hall
The end of which I can see
But cannot understand how to get there.