You always
remember your first time.
The first
time you achieve a dream.
The first
time you reach a goal you set in school.
Just how
that first A on a math test felt.
Just how
happy your parents were as they posted it on the refrigerator.
Just how content
you felt after eating that extra piece of dessert you got as a reward.
You always
remember your first time.
The first
time you achieve a dream.
The first
time you scored a game-winning goal in soccer.
Just how ecstatic
you were running around hi-fiveing all your teammates.
Just how
proud you were seeing your parents cheer you on from the stands.
Just how powerful it
felt to contribute to the win.
You always
remember your first time.
The first
time you achieve a dream.
The first
time you visit your dream city.
Just how fulfilled
you felt finally seeing “the most magnificent place” you’d ever been too.
Just how
overwhelming it was taking in all the sites.
Just how you
felt “the emotional connection” to such a beautiful place.
You always
remember your first time.
The first
time you achieve a dream.
The first
time you find a place that truly inspires you.
Just how rewarding
discovering that place feels.
Just how
captivating that place feels when you see it.
Just how
comforting it is knowing it is always up there for you to see.
You always
remember your first time.
My first thought was that the author is boy. We discussed in class how small, subtle details could make us assume the gender of a person. The Star Wars background of the blog leads me to assume that the author is male.
ReplyDeleteThe title, Space is to Place as Eternity is to Time, fits with the Star Wars theme. I don’t quite understand how this post fits with the Star Wars theme or background, except that Star Wars takes place in other places in the universe and space.
The post is a poem about the feeling you get the first time you do something right, or visit a new place, or find what inspires you. The text is broken up into multiple stanzas, with similar numbers of syllables in each line of each stanza. Each stanza repeats the same two lines, which really emphasizes exactly what the poem is about—achieving a dream, whatever the dream may be. The last three lines of each stanza start with “Just how” to describe the feelings of achieving your dream. The repetition and the phrase do a good job of making recall just how I felt the first time I did each of the things the author writes about.
I got the sense that outer space is the place that truly inspires the author of this post. Not only because of the Star Wars background or the title, but because in the stanza about finding a place that inspires you, he writes that it is comforting “knowing it is always up there for you to see.”
The picture, an infinity symbol with what looks like a picture of outer space, didn’t make sense to me in the context of the written text at first. It fits clearly with the overall theme of the blog, but I wasn’t able to make the connection to the poem until I reread it and found the line about the sky, or possibly outer space, being inspiring for the author.