ASSIGNMENT: Write a poem about how you felt about working in The Care Center and how you feel about leaving The Care Center after 8 years. Good Luck.

- Adelaida G.

 

How I Feel About Working at The Care Center – How I Feel About Leaving

for Adelaida

 

Working here feels like knitting a scarf that is long enough to wrap around worlds

weaving it with words instead of knits and purls.

Working here feels like digging for diamonds

with pencils instead of picks.

Working here feels like opening doors

using poems as keys.

Working here feels like making sunshine

out of feelings: anger fear, disappointment, joy and hope.

Leaving here feels like breaking your pencil point right when you find the best word for your poem.

Leaving here feels like a poem in need of a new metaphor.

Like putting down a book right when you get to the juiciest part.

Leaving here is made easier, knowing I leave behind me

a line of poets, pregnant with stories, emotions and wise words

who will continue telling the story

long after I’m gone.

- Tzivia