Do I have rose-tinted glasses on when I see
How things are in my parent country
The land I had left years ago for opportunities more
Has it acquired an aura it did not have before
Such that everything is bathed in a positive light
People exude happiness, the future looks bright
The problems that seemed gigantic previously
Do not appear as enormous any longer to me
Is it real or is it my distorted perception
Is my patriotic fervor causing deception
Or am I comparing my motherland to my adopted land
Whose strengths and weaknesses now I better understand
My outlook on where I live now is no longer rosy
The rosy hue has shifted to my parent country..
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What is better and where is a question for which it is difficult to find
A unanimous answer, different aspects come to mind
The place that you don’t live in constantly
Is the one that with rose colored glasses you see
Passion...unbridled 