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 May 2016 Got Guanxi
Alex M
Octopus
 May 2016 Got Guanxi
Alex M
I look across the hallway down a ways
What I see also sees me
She waves
I am astonished
Does she see that?
Does she see the way I feel?
I walk over
She is focused on me
She only sees me
I reach in
I feel a chill down my spine
I stay focused
She wraps her arms around me
I feel relaxed, soothed, serine
She can taste me
My Past
My Present
My future
She knows every little thing I have said and done
She has invaded my secrets I tell no one
I don’t mind
She pulls
I let her
I hear footsteps hurrying near
They are pulling me out
Why?
I could stay here forever
I am free here
I am suddenly released from the dazed spell she put on me
A little longer?
I don’t mind
This poem is for a school project. What do you all think?
 May 2016 Got Guanxi
Alex M
Perhaps…
Perhaps you won’t mind my otherworldyness
I am different, yet similar
We are both living, though that is a bit of a stretch
We have beating and living hearts, though I have three
We have a brain to think from
We both have dreams when we sleep
We are both intelligent creatures living on this earth

Perhaps…
Perhaps you won’t mind my otherworldyness
I am different, yet similar
I have tentacles, you have arms
I live in the sea, you live on land
I camouflage, you do not
I live for a short few years, while you live for decades
We are both intelligent creatures living on this earth

Perhaps…
Perhaps we are more similar than you think
This poem is for a school project. What do you all think?
 May 2016 Got Guanxi
Mark Lecuona
Sometimes
you need to be part of something
Not a follower
but something they would miss
Not a gift
but something you have earned
It's the feeling
of watching a baseball game
Or sitting
at the bottom of a swimming pool
Surrounded
by what makes you feel welcome
I felt it once
long ago inside an old chapel
And when
you cried because I was leaving
That's when
I knew that I was a part of love
That's when
you finally became a part of me
 May 2016 Got Guanxi
Alex M
Red, yellow, green and blue
Orange, pink and violet, too.
All of these colors are accepted
But me, gray, nobody likes gray
I am gray

I am a dark shade
I am not a color
I blend in, never coming out
The rest of the colors are vibrant
I am gray

I am always in the dark
Never spoken to
Never acknowledged
I am always pushed aside
I am gray

I am by myself - Like a lone wolf
No one understands me
I am the shadows of other people
I feel like I don’t belong
I am gray

I am darkness
Never to be seen with the sun
I have no brightness within me
I stay hidden in the lonely street corners
I am gray

I should never come out
for no one would notice me
I am a shadowy figure
No one understands me
I am gray

Red, yellow, green and blue
Orange, pink and violet, too.
I wish I was like them,
I wish to be known and to belong
I am gray
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