| 1st Place for Summer Sun Awards (Beginner's Firsts) |
| 2nd Place for the Pinpoint Awards |
| Finalist for the 2016 Awards |
It matters not what people think regarding things you believe strongly in. Perhaps, it may even help to even spread...
And no, I do not wish to liberate our country from our own ideals, but rather
I'd wish we were all just pandas.
If we were all white, black and Asian,
God knows the fighting would've stopped eons ago.
There would have been no bad names and racial slurs and sloppy misjudgments and insecurities galore and
Maybe
I would have learned to fit in peace instead of being in pieces.
A/N: Hi everyone!
So, this is the poem I recited for the first round of the poetry slam, which initiated my whole dive into this whole thing, which is crazy amazing, haha. I don't think it'll be easy for me to forget my experience of being on stage and being pelted by so much love and applause haha. I got off the stage shaking because I felt it was surreal.
Now, I know I've received some good comments regarding my poetry, but every time I do receive another compliment, it's always shocking because...At the end of the day, I'm just your typical nineteen year old student, studying Software Engineering while writing poetry as a means of expression.
Thank you so much by the way for everyone's support, especially cleverwren and charmed-life for helping me out with all the proof-reading and giving me their comments on my recitation of it.
I'll send you the links to my performances, if you wish haha, of which there are "Hi, I'm a Man" and this poem right here. So, when the organanizers have posted them up, I'll notify you peeps.
Until then, I'd like to thank you all again for reading and wish you all a wonderful day ahead of you! :)
P.S: As suggested by A_Poetic_Kill, I think it'd help every non-Malaysian to understand this even more if I provide everyone with a glossary of sorts for the Malaysian-local terms, so here we go. :)
Ali and Abu - Your typical Malay names, John Doe and Jane Doe if you must, except these are both male names.
Mat Salleh - A white person, basically.
Penjajah - This is a little hard to describe to be honest, haha, but if it's Googled translated, it means colonialist, except it's more strong, especially when used as an insult.
Makcik and Pakcik - Auntie and Uncle, except they don't have to be your Auntie and Uncle biologically. It's basically for every middle-aged woman/man you see.
Jambu - Guava, which is something Malaysians commonly eat. We usually sprinkle it with this orange/brown-ish powder called 'asam' for flavour.
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