A Hotchpotch of Chance

Scottish yet not Scottish

neither there nor here

nor Polish

nor Irish

nor British

European of a sort yes

but my philosophy is the East's

my core from China and Japan

Poland is in my heart

because of my father's woes

and his family's despair

but I am not Polish

I am from Hamilton

of Hamilton

in Hamilton

with Hamilton

We are legion

let them emerge

each in its own turn

and not dwell too much

on the confusion of identity

which is after all

just a hotchpotch of Chance