So many things have changed since thenwhen I boarded the plane high into the blueI didn't just leave my poor parents behindbut a part of my life, through and through

So many things have changed since thenwhen I filled the suitcase full of memoriesthe suitcase made me feel I had worthlike an angel, it wipes the sadness from my eyes to this day.

So many things have changed since thenwhen I started to think in other languagestoday I have to ask my countrymen ten timesjust to forge a connection of thoughts again.

So many things have changed since thenwhen they told me to change my nameas if my name had no worth at allbut a concocted monster, just so I could work.

so many things have changed since thenwhen I emptied the suitcase there in a foreign landI have a name—I shouted—a history like the restfor this I have no reason to suffer.