Mi Casa, My Home - Alma Garcia

Mi casa un lugar tan bello donde mis sueños se hacían realidad 
Tiempos en mi vida cuando yo pude volar 

Un lugar donde aprendí como hablar
Donde mi corazón empezó a palpitar
Donde mis raíces mexicanas se empezaban a enseñar

 My home, a place that I no longer belong
Where Spanish can no longer be my first language 
A place called America, 
Where people told me my dreams would be easy to breathe 

A new world where my young self dreamed so big 
Every time that I envisioned it
I could always see my dreams so clear so vivid 
All I had to do was jump, touch the sky, and boom I’ll live it

But gravity pulls me down,
Says, You don’t deserve that crown; 
You don’t look like the rest, you must start from the ground 

Confused as I could ever be,
I was thrown inside a dungeon
Where my mind began to teach me that 
This is where I’m meant to be, 
That my destiny was not to succeed 
So, once I believed every word they would say 
I began to sniff every line / get high off of their lies / overdosing every time 

I slowly became the disgrace that destiny once sold me,
But over time I was done getting played / so I became sober / learned to play their games 
Now that I learned to read I began to rewrite my own history 
I witnessed the first tear that the brightness shed 
I learned to make light in a place destined for darkness

 And now I’ve made it this far,
Destiny still calls and says, 
Remember the first line gravity told you, 
You’re supposed to take it to your grave
Keep it that way, 
But unlike before, I’ve gained a new strength 

I AM NO LONGER A SLAVE TO THAT PHRASE! 

My dreams might take a bit longer, but it’s okay 
My trip is quite long, I have far more to go through 
And to this day I still hear people say, 
You’re so close, you’re so nearby,
All you have to do is touch the sky one more time 

Now I take it as a joke, I laugh, lay back, turn then I think about it 
They’ll never know that it took 
Two days, 
Two trains, and
Two planes to get right into my lane

Nunca van a saber que tuve que tomar
Dos días para viajar, 
Dos aviones que agarrar, y 
Dos trenes par regresar hacia mi vida natural 

Ahora se que mi casa no esta aquí ni esta allá 
Si no en cualquier lugar que tomo un paso donde 
Mi corazón siembra una semilla nueva 
Esa es mi casa 

My home