In honor of the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I would like to share this poem. I wrote the poem in my last year at Stockton State College in New Jersey in the fall of 1983. The cold war was something I didn't think would end.
She carried her baby in one hand
Walking as fast as she can
While the thunder grew closer and closer
She walked as though she was running
There was a wave of people
Some were dragging
Some were dying once
Some were dying twice
She laughs and she keeps talking
Of how she had survived
From North to South
It was some forty years ago
When people were just using swords and guns
Now as she sits and wonders
Just how she ended up here
The land of dream and tomorrow
The land of wines and roses
The land of pointed noses and blue eyes
The land of mixed black and white
Trying to understand where she will land
If there ever is
A thermonuclear bang!
Odette Kim Cao - Fall 1983
Brigantine, New Jersey
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