Class went hiking today and it was really nice besides the fact that I'm out of shape (I actually got tired going up the mountain..bad bad bad) and there wasn't enough class time to see everything. Hiking to the top was fun cause we all made random jokes and talked and I got to know some people a little better than I got to know them inside of class. We read poems and talked about them and what they meant to us. It was interesting to see who chose which poem and without saying who they were you could tell by the poem they chose and what they had to say about it. At the end of our discussions before we headed back down, Mr. Lovas said that he'd offer 20 points extra credit to whoever wrote a poem. So without further due..here is my poem

Forgotten

by

K.J. Chowdhry

Long have I forgotten who I used to be

I knew who I was at times like these

But now I fear a new direction has come

These winds pass through me as I run

To which way has my soul taken

And left this body here forsaken

I asked questions to the sky

Of which were granted no reply

Many a person will share prime

In a gathering of their time

Speak they will of many things

Bodies of earth and souls with wings

Like all must part these two will meet

Both compete as they complete

Each other in a whole new art

Yet time will tear them soon apart

High above and yet so low

The more I shrink, the more I grow

And as I sit here…pondering

Long have I forgotten who I used to be