Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Footprints in the Snow

After almost an hour of aimlessly walking on the snow-covered streets of Toronto while thinking of giving up my life here, I suddenly feel an uncontrollable urge to cry out. I stop walking and raise my head, screaming at the top of my lungs about all the frustrations pent up since I immigrated to Canada six years ago: “I’m really tired of starting over. No matter what I do, it gets wiped out. I want to leave something meaningful behind.”

passing by each other
then disappearing...
footprints in new snow


August, 2009 issue of Word Catalyst