In that year when the world was beyond my imagining,
\nthe biggest place where anything was possible,
\nI took my first steps into a wide open world,
\nThough not so wide as I had first imagined it.
\nOnly 26 hours to travel around the world?
\nThat doesn’t seem very big at all.
\nSuch were my thoughts as I boarded the plane
\nThat would steal from me my vision of the world,
\nShrinking, slipping, sliding down into something
\nI could carry in my pocket to class.
\nInto the unknown that was known to me,
\nIn the way that I knew who I would meet in that place,
\nThat airport, the person I had seen but never seen.
\nI don’t want to judge her on my dreams,
\nmy expectations are surely less than reality,
\nsurely less than she deserves.
\nI had thought I would be prepared, my dreams
\nHad never included weariness,
\nBut then the sun was shining again,
\nAnd I was tired, and shocked,
\nWhen I was squeezed out of my dreams,
\nWhen she squeezed the weariness out of me.
\nI’m here, I’m really here, I made it!
\nI felt bigger because of it,
\nAnd the world felt smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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