Het zit zo: Ik ben een schrijfmap aan het maken met al mijn schrijfsels. Deze twee gedichten heb ik voor school gemaakt. Zijn ze de moeite waard om in mijn map te doen en wat zou ik er nog aan kunnen verbeteren? Ik heb een bijzonder kleine Engelse woordenschat, ze zijn dus wat simpel.
O ja, 'Miss Collary' is geen naam die goed loopt in het ritme. Het zou zeg maar zo moeten klinken: 'Miss Appelmoes', maar dan een behoorlijke Engelse naam. Iemand een idee?
You’re fired
He knits his brows and clears his throat,
He takes his pen and writes the note:
‘Miss Collary came late again
She always comes too late.
I think that you should fire her,
I think you shouldn’t wait.’
He smiles when he hands over it,
“The boss is there, my dear.
Give him this note and, well, I think
That you will disappear.”
Contentedly and complacent,
He smiles and pricks his ears.
He shuffles to the open door,
And this is what he hears:
“Miss Collary, you’re fired.”
And then a crying voice.
He nods and thinks: “I didn’t have,
An option or a choise”
“She is lazy and unwilling,
Unimportant, like a cur.
She is silly, simple, stupid!
Yes, I’m glad I’m not like her”
--
The mirror
I’m looking in the mirror
And this is what I see
An old and tired woman
I think she looks like me
She has grey and curly hair
A pale and wrinkled face
He two blue eyes start crying
For the first time in these days
I’m looking in the mirror
And this is what I see
An old and crying woman
I think that she is me
A sparkling tear on her left cheek
The first tear since his death
It’s not a tear of sorrow
She feels relieved, not sad
I’m looking in the mirror
And this is what I see
An old and tired widow
I know that she is me
Finally she gets the chance
To live a happy life
To be the things she wants to be
Not anymore his wife
I’m looking in the mirror
And what I see is me
An old and happy widow
Finally she’s free
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