I am from...
Utah.
A land of wonder
enchantment, beauty,
snow, mountains, desert,
A landscape I miss so
But also a conservatism
that stifles, chokes, represses
creativity, questioning, exploration
of the depths of yourself,
the expanse of the world.
Rooted in the landscape and natural wonder of Utah
but turned way by the culture of repression
I long for a place of mountain peaks,
4 seasons, deep canyons of red rock, billowing rocky peeks
But I cannot live stifled
So I search...
by mary sundblom
written in session on service-learning in refugee communities
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