Wonder
Suzy Park
I’ m looking for a world where there are no friends,
No one to turn to, no one to turn away from. In this giant façade of swirls and twirls, Of back-stabbings and foot-steppings,
I lost my mask, And now it seems I cannot attend the ball.
I’ m searching for a world where none of them exists, The fishes that bite and grasp readily at the plump red worm,
That smile at the sharks and crunches the shells, What a funny little town, I used to think, Even the animals hide behind the shields.
They mock at the crowd that does not wear a mask, Don’ t they know even a clown is laughing at them?
I’ m trying to find my castle, where there are no friends, Where the light-winged dryad of the trees sings of summer
In full-throated ease.
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