Poetry, honestly!

Okay so I'm a laserbeam and I hate poetry. Usually. I mean, I don't get it. Perhaps I should read more of it, or write more of it ;) How stereotypical could I get. Sitting there, sipping herbal tea, with my birkenstocks on writing really bad poetry. But I stumbled upon this poem for I like it...Although its very depressing. Perhaps I should stop listening to those tragic country stations on iTunes. I discovered streaming country but all of the songs are so bad. I never knew country could be so bad. She's leaving me now, sang in your best country twang. The dog don't love me no more...And so on and so forth. I digress

Don't go far off...by Pablo Neruda

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

I like it, stop rolling your eyes. Its the last time I share anything meaningful with you. Perhaps the poetry thing came up because the kid is re-discovering the joy of some poet whos's name won't come to be at the mo. She's gone from hating the woman to starting to like her poetry, its an interesting transition. Interesting bccause any time you asked her how English was, all you got was this woman's name followed by a string of niceties.

Things appear to have settled down in school, I offered to help with Maths. I got a raised eyebrow and a "I'm grand at Maths " response.

I thought I was doing good by offering to help, tisk.

Weekend was meh, I am exhausted and I think I'll just work and sleep this week. Feeling a bit out of sorts. Perhaps I should go back to listening to the eurovision stuff, it always makes me smile.