Have You Ever Stopped To Ponder
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Have You Ever Stopped to Ponder?
Have you ever stopped to ponder
Have you ever stopped to ponder
The girl sitting next to you in class
The girl sitting next to you in class
The one with the unassuming brown hair
The one with the glistening green eyes
The one with too many books
The one entranced by her novel
The one who seems too distracted
The one who seems passionate
The one who probably doesn’t want to talk to you
The one who yearns to know you
Who probably has nothing to worry about
Who strives for perfection
Who probably has bland taste
Who is misunderstood
Who probably will return home to her loving family
Who will return home to the disfunction
Who probably will smile as she sits and laughs
Who probably will weep as she sits alone
Who probably feels perfectly comfortable
Who longs to be accepted
Wherever she goes
As her tenacity grows,
She creates a world for herself
A world of music and the Neoclassical and warmth and delight and self-assurance
She reaps the advantages of the fact
That this world is only splendid if she makes it
And slowly, she begins to overcome
Have you ever stopped to wonder about
Have you ever stopped to wonder about
The girl waiting next to you on the platform
The girl waiting next to you on the platform
The one with the headphones
The one who lets Rachmaninoff transport her from this world
The one who dresses foreignly
The one who wishes it was 1910
The one reading in a strange language
The one who dares to love Arabic in a racist country
The one who seems completely at ease
The one who has worked so hard to get here
Who probably will exit the station
Who will step out into the tender morning
Who probably will stroll down the street
Who will let the city wash over her
Who will stop for coffee on her way to work
Who will be enamored anew with the place she left her home for
Who will carry out her day
Who will finally be able to live
Without a complication