Picture ‘Perfect’ Land
By Cate Haines
I board the plane with rocks in my chest
Which I’m surprised the metal detector didn’t sense
But my mom says everything will be just fine
Because way too soon we’ll cross the borderline
We’ll be leaving behind the people I need
To go to a picture ‘perfect’ land that I’ve never seen
Aside from the pictures and films on TV
Where the only moral seems that everyone’s free
The sadness and loneliness has filled up my aura
As I feel my family just wants to leave behind that era
When we’re where we fit in and with the people to which we belong
As if they haven’t tried enough to tell us that leaving our homeland would be wrong
And the ghosts will never leave me
Of the friendships that will be left across the sea
And my mom tells me as she grabs more tissues
“We’re gonna make a new life and leave our ‘outdated issues’”
Cate Haines has been writing poetry for about a year, and loves musical arts and hanging out with her friends.