Why do I delight

In words, in phrases?

Painters and sketchers

Get all the fun.

Why do I enjoy paper

A fresh white canvas,

So eager

To soak it in ink?

____________________

¿Por Qué

Tengo yo la necesidad

De hablar en idiomas extranjeros?

…como si cosas me extrañan

Que nunca vi,

Adonde nunca fui,

Voy donde nunca seré

Aceptada.

_____________________

Pourquoi

Ai-je le désir

De faire les voyages

Longs et loins

Où je ne trouverais jamais

Un esprit d’appartenir,

Où j’aurais rien à offrir.

_____________________

I wish to contribute

Some small jewel

To the world.

Yet the pockets of my soul

Seem empty.

______________________

Je veux déterrer,

Donner au monde

Un diamant précieux

Mais les coins de mon cœur

Semblent vides.

______________________

Quiero cavar, dar al mundo

Un regalo precioso

Pero los bolsillos de mi alma

Parecen vacíos.

_______________________

Am I empty?

Vide?

O demasiado llena?

A soul too full

For good use?

________________________

By JB Morris- Poems, Prose, and Possibilities- mostly about life, sometimes about God, with brief interludes concerning shoe addiction.

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