Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Hallo, Salve, 你好
As I sit in the corner of the Spanish room,
A thoughts creeps into my mind,
I think how useless it is to learn a language,
And then my head explodes,
Are we ever going to use these languages?
Doesn't Google translate suffice?
Then the most embarrassing thing happens
The teacher asks me a question
I sit there trying to buy some time.
I see out of the corner of my eyes that the class is sniggering.
I get so infuriated at this useless subject
I am pounding my fist against the school gates
And thinking why Christopher Polhem
Did you create the lock?
I jump in despair because my dreams
Of flying were shattered when I was told
That Isaac newton had discovered gravity.
I wish Thomas Edison hadn't created the light bulb
Because I didn't want anyone
To see the tears rolling down my face.
It was like someone 13.8 billion years ago had pressed that
Big red button that said Control.
I am asleep
And I am in a brick room
Nothing else is there except for the empty void
But I am clutching on to something for dear life
It is almost invisible, it whispers
There used to be a diamond wall
But they broke it down
Do you know how they break diamonds it asked?
I do we learnt that in science
They find the weakest point and smash it with all there might
That’s what they did to me, the diamond wall said
But you can fix me
I woke up and I knew what I must do
I wrote about all my shattered dreams and read for inspiration
Slowly but surely the priceless diamond wall was rebuilt
And it Expanded and expanded
So once again I believe I can touch the stars