April 16-18
Flap
Large hands, loud hands,
Flappy flappy happy hands,
Spread arms, flapping arms,
Telling the world of my joy.
An obsessive joy, you say?
Perhaps.
But JOY.
Do not begrudge my happiness.
Do not prevent its expression.
I will flap.
Tianjin
A place I have not yet been.
A place I have not yet seen.
I will be a foreigner,
But not alone,
No more than I am here.
Not isolated,
No more than I am here.
There will be no culture shock.
Just the realization:
For once, I should feel like a foreigner.
If Only/But Really
Flap
Large hands, loud hands,
Flappy flappy happy hands,
Spread arms, flapping arms,
Telling the world of my joy.
An obsessive joy, you say?
Perhaps.
But JOY.
Do not begrudge my happiness.
Do not prevent its expression.
I will flap.
Tianjin
A place I have not yet been.
A place I have not yet seen.
I will be a foreigner,
But not alone,
No more than I am here.
Not isolated,
No more than I am here.
There will be no culture shock.
Just the realization:
For once, I should feel like a foreigner.
If Only/But Really
If only we could be
ourselves.
But really we are afraid.
If only we had the nerve,
But really we are cowards.
If only, if only, the
woodpecker sighs,
But really, the world is as
it is.
If only is all well and
good,
But really is life.
(I took creative writing three times in high school, and this was a pattern that we played around with for poetry on occasion.)
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