What Rough Beast | Poem for March 20, 2018

Sungyoun Jee
What I Want to See

The elephant
which romps
around the plains
roaming the savanna

with its companions
that are just as noble.
Their tusks striking the air
as the herd advances.

The elephant
which is larger than all
which is never hunted,
but also never hunts

those who are weak—
the one
who drinks from the pond
without causing war,

the one who swings
its trunk merrily
as if it were a
metronome instructing

the group to move quicker,
saying that there is much more
to see in the endless plains.
This is what I want to see.

 

Sungyoun Jee is a freshman at the International School Manila. He has won awards in the Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Writing Contest for his poetry as well as in the Scholastics Art & Writing Awards for his short story and poetry. He enjoys taking naps and eating pasta.

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