A Gentle Walk

 

"In the evening of life we will be judged on love alone."

Saint John of the Cross

Pretty

Thaw

"This world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no house upon it."

Frost

I don't need to assimilate

Or unlearn my mother tongue

To understand the riddles of a new country.

I can speak my own language,

Sing my own poetry

and write my own story.