The following poem describes a different planet that seems to have overcome many of the barriers that we face in today’s world. However, the speaker faces a barrier that is preventing her from going to live there.
Another Planet By Dunya Mikhail
I have a special ticket to another planet beyond this Earth. A comfortable world, and beautiful: a world without much smoke, not too hot
and not too cold. The creatures are gentler there, and the governments have no secrets. The police are nonexistent: there are no problems and no fi ghts. And the schools don’t exhaust their students with too much work for history has yet to start and there’s no geography and no other languages.
And even better: the war
has left its ‘r’ behind and turned into love, so the weapons sleep beneath the dust, and the planes pass by without shelling the cities, and the boats look like smiles on the water. All things are peaceful and kind
on the other planet beyond this Earth. But still I hesitate to go alone.
