Must be difficult, to break all ties
To separate the truth from the lies
Of your comforting cradle of birth
Toward a far land, set forth.

Must be difficult, to unlearn
Everything you once knew
The new speedily in your mind burn
A different thinking accept as true

Must be difficult, to get used
To faces white and black
To wish self-protective skills fused
Master the alien with an easy knack

Must be difficult, more than the ways
To tragically leave behind
The feel of rainy tropical days
Neighbors and friends kind

Must be difficult, to restart
From the bottom of the ladder
With your strange foreign ways part
Keep the homesickness from making you sadder

But, yet you do it
With great joy and pain
To keep the internal fire you once lit
And pursue happiness, not in vain

Madam Anonymous

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-immigrant-hymn/