Poetry

We had scheduled a team social event for Saturday last weekend. But last week as the date loomed there wasn't any final decision about what we should do. I contributed two ideas:

1. Hire some 250cc dirt-bikes and give them a bash on some of the dirt roads outside of Phnom Penh.
2. Put on a progressive dinner with poetry reading.

The poetry option won. Everyone had to bring two poems to read to the group throughout the evening. Some were original poems. Some were classics. All were very good.

There's a poem by Anna McKenzie that really resonates with me but I didn't end up reading out. Below is just an excerpt. Click here if you want to read the whole thing.

...We did not want it easy God,
but we did not contemplate
that it would be quite this hard,this long, this lonely.

...We are not fighting you God,
even if it feels like it,
but we need your help and company,
as we struggle on.
Fighting backand starting over.