Hey people all around the world! How have you been all these while? I realize that there are lesser people looking at the blog and i am starting to get nervous and wondering why. Well, first of all, I will have to apologize to those who are expecting something more interesting fro this blog. i know that i must have hurt most of you but we have to face the fact. recently, my friends who are 17 years old are taking National exams.
In Malaysia we call it the SPM exams. It is different from any other exams. They have their test from today till the next month. Their whole month is occupied and they are going to be very busy. So i will like to wish those of you who are having SPM exams in Malaysia good luck and best wishes all the way.
My friends, i have a poem to share with you today. It is by David Perez. I find t quite interesting and wonderful. It shows how lonely a person can be and how hunger are around the world. We should really start to appreciate the food that we have in front of us. Appreciate how much food we have to fill our stomach and not take them for granted. There are people around the world who are really poor and hungry. They have nothing to eat.
Some of them even desperately eat grass because of what hunger can make one person become. Others drinks mud water to quench their thirst. Well here it is:
The buildings are empty
and their clocks have stopped
Somewhere there's a banquet
where people gorge themselves
and keep getting thinner
Maggots are laughing at us
berries are allocating
more resources to thorns
We are stranded
on our own rooftops
So thirsty,
we pray for floods
There are still things i want to say
before I reach for the hand closest to mine
and watch the fires with a secret glee
One of these things is
thank you for listening to me
scream into the air
and calling it wind
Another is
please do not leave - David Perez
It is wonderfully shared by a friend of mine called Roger Klotz.
After he shared with me this poem I have a lot of awareness. He showed me how things are different if you actually look at it from a different angle. The sentence, 'So thirsty, we pray for flood', emphasises how thirsty these people are until they wold pray for flood to come. It must have been a very dry season all year long until it never rains. It somehow reminded me of Cambodia, where there is only wo seasons. Dry season and Wet season. Well that's it for tonight. I still have my story to finish and a name to give it. It is going to be finished by the end of this year and i will try to find a plce to publish it.
