MEETING HER

I was born Asian but I was not fully Asian

My mother was American Asian

Poverty was first life I tasted 

But I had a happy family

My father lost his local job 

My mother ran away with his brother

Love was erased from my memory

With a brother to raise and father to bury

My life turned from from worse to worst

Fighting to keep a roof and feed two stomachs

I worked all day long

Moved into  an orphanage

Worked at a garage 

At only fifteen I knew more than fifty years old men

School was least of my worries

Keeping my brother healthy was my focus

Left my brother in the orphanage

Worked day and night

Wondering what tomorrow had in store

How worse could it be?

And then my cousin shows up

Arrested I was

Doing what I loved most

But caught in the wrong place

Want to get me to do anything?

Include a car in your sentence

My cousin a crown prince

He knew me too well

I ran into a lady

She was beautiful 

She was out of my league

But my heart rejoiced when I saw her

I mean bumped into her

At that moment I believed in fate

Only the heavens were to do that

Days and months passed

I missed her like crazy

But I didn't know her

She was a business woman

She had two children

I read newspapers

But I wanted to marry her already

Fate saw my misery

I applied for a job

Little did I know 

The one I loved was the boss

Rod the elevator with her

Something no one did

But all she said was "did you have breakfast?"

My resume was trash

With prison time, no prestigious school

With the cheap suit

I had no chance over Harvard students

God knows why they were there

One by one they came back with frowns

I prayed to God to help me

She was on the phone 

She looked even more beautiful

I had never seen a woman like her

She wasn't Asian 

My father said Asian women were the best

I wish he was there to witness her beauty

He'd go back on his words

Ariane Dushime

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From my book Jar Of Hearts.This is the POV of Jo Bae.

This poem shows how Jo Bae felt when he met Nalani for the

first and second time. 

The book is available on Wattpad.