You have kept me in this cage for so long, That I have not been able to fly. When I ask to open it, You just plainly deny. When I want to know the reason behind my imprisonment, You do not reply. After repeated pleas, I finally realize…
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Summers were once my own.Now I spend themChasing someone else’s dreamsTo fulfill unspoken obligations… Unspoken obligations which bind meLike the feet of my ancestorsBack in my homeland China. “Become a doctor,” they say,As if there is no alternative. But didn’t they come to America,The land of the free,In…
“The language you think in is the one you’re most comfortable in.” my eighth grade English teacher had once announced, to a class of yawning teenagers. I sat in the front row, squeezing my eyes shut to try and think. But thinking about thinking is harder than you’d…