This Man ... Este Hombre

Passionate Latino ways

Fair skinned Americano

Spanish, his mother tongue

Light-blue-eyed gringo

Since a babe

Growing wild

On an equatorial mountain

Like his rainforest beloved

Mellow cadenced speech recalls

Softly strummed strings

Of guitars accompanying

Lyrically poetic songs

Sung by sunny breezes

On the rich coast
- La Costa Rica -

Between two seas

This man ... Este hombre

Caught - trapped

In between

Starkly different cultures

As a man without a country

Whose Spanglish ideas

Blunt a sense of belonging

In either familiar latitude 

Too Latin to be American

Too American to be Latin

He yearns to be home

With no rest for his longing