When we fall in love, our superficiality is at its best. It shines with a florid burst, making us even more enamored, perhaps with the person or possibly with the idea of being in love. When the true person emerges in a relationship, no one knows. Some people claim it is during the first argument, but I’m not so sure. By the time we have reached the age to “fall in love”, we have been through many manifestations of half-truths via our friends, siblings, extended family, and parents.
I was raised with parents who had high morals and principles, which they drilled into us. One powerful sermon to us children was about our desire for certain “recreational activities”. Alcohol and cigarettes were never to be introduced, much less entertained in our lives. We kids knew if we even thought of touching any type of “smoke” or glanced at any alcohol other than isopropyl, our lives…show more content… His poem, like a butterfly, flits onto different subjects, giving us a taste of persimmons and love, innocence and confusion, misunderstandings and intimate knowledge not explained. He opens with his teacher evoking her adult truths and failing to see the veracities of a child, her student. Her job is to teach, yet she has forgotten what she once knew. Her learning is not accumulative; it is only from her adult schema that she can impart knowledge. As the young lad matures, he realizes he is losing his original realities and attempts to grasp on to his father’s to better understand and appreciate life. On the flip side, his father now has the time to look into his son’s heart and can share clarity with his child, if only he will be receptive and can perceive the intricate delicacies the father offers. Because the father’s eyesight no longer limits him, he has new levels of understanding and appreciation. Lee speaks for all ages because we all have our beliefs deeply instilled, and some people assume it must look the same for everyone
