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Colorado As I cross the Rockies in a Ford Aspire, My Korean car, renamed and reborn In America with hopes to inspire It to be a better thing than foreign, I think of immigrants and refugees Long ago, far from home, alone, knapsacks Full of crumbs and hopes, mouthing simple pleas For dignity, who left their humble shacks To cross these rugged slopes the other way With only courage, guts and deep yearning To earn those names they couldn't even say And expose the pride within them burning, Since today, my little car will proclaim Itself like them, at home in place and name. |
Additional Notes:
This sonnet,like the sonnet "Utah", was inspired and written during my exodus from Southern California. Like other immigrants & refugees, I'm looking for the promised land, but the one I seek is not a place but a state of mind and being. I'm not close yet but my little Korean car made great progress on this trip and earned its citizenship papers with flying colors... another episode in the great American story. You should see how it drives around now cocky confidence and a smile on its grill!
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