Luyện nghe bài hát I Travel Home

I travel home to remember the sound of
I the evening to pray I remember this as it is
For when the city
the sound of the green-line trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surround my senses diminishing this version of my

I will remember
The silence and the time
I will red sand on bare feet
My skin sticky in the sun
My hair like untamed
I will remember the air thick of

I will remember my in the night
And the children she for
I will see them once more as play
Peeking at me from the crack in the

I will remember my aunti-- her famous Jeloff
Asking me in Ishan native tongue
"Ofure...Onegbe?"...How is everything...you're too skinny"
And I, struggling to up, clumsily responding
"Butayay aunti?" That means, I know what you just said

I remember the market place
The selling smoked corn and plantain
The taste of and egusi
The sound of Doris yam
Fresh oranges the Arrimogiga farm

When city lights mask the majesty of my favorite constellations
I will the moon...
and smiling
Because I am a
As if she knows I am
enough to write about it
Perhaps because I am a
I will the unseen

The and the beggars, the roadside wanderers,
People trying to survive
Children roadside selling cell phones and trinkets
I will the local roads
Beaten and eroded by and time
built beside a 15 story hotel skyrise
So many having so
Neighbors with others with nothing
But the hand-me-downs on their
And the realities of poverty crushing
of tomorrow

I leave behind my colored glasses
In my grandfather's
Because when my plane finally lands in Boston
I want to believe that changes me every time
These moments teach me how to recognize what we for granted
Constant electricity and water
on every corner
The opportunity to rise beyond our native
These are the details that risk a fate of becoming lost or
Like sounds of the
For when the returns
When the sound of the green-line trolley cars and
Surrounds my senses diminishing this version of my
I remember this
I to remember this