Month: September 2014
After School!
At school I pretended I had a normal life,
but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else.
I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities,
go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.
School First!
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
That some people, unable to go to school,
were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
My Bathrobe.. It’s time to sleep!
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create
the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Elly Tran Ha 