Saturday, May 16, 2015

Esperanza's Poem

"I want to be
like the waves on the sea, 
like the clouds in the wind,
but I'm me.
One day I'll jump
out of my skin.
I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins."

-Esperanza

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street, "Born Bad", pages 73-74.

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