I am Mei Ling (1) (Chapter 6)

08年3月12日新版本

 

Chapter 6 I Still Didn’t Cry

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I tried to hold back my tears.

I brushed the dust off my knee.

I didn’t want Mom to see it.

She would be worried about me.

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I went back to the basement room.

I quickly put on that shoe.

Fortunately, Mom wasn’t there.

She didn’t see that I was blue.

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What can I do or play?

I couldn’t go anywhere.

I looked out of the window,

Standing on the only chair. 

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It took a long time for a car

To pass by in front of me.

I silently counted them,

One… two… three…

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Nothing was interesting.

Slowly, I heaved a deep sigh.

I felt so tired and lonely,

This, I couldn’t deny.

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I thought of my Chinese friends.

I really wanted to cry.

Suddenly, I saw some white

Fluffy things flying in the sky.

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It was snowing! It was snowing!

The white flakes fell more and more.

I was thrilled. I had never

Seen such big snowflakes before.

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It seemed as if they all

Got together to say, “Hi.”

It seemed as if they all

Happily danced in the sky.

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When I lived in South China,

It was warm and rarely snowed there.

I wished I could mail some snowflakes

To my Chinese friends by air.

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In China, we didn’t

Have big beautiful snow.

But my dear friends and I

Had a lot of good times, though.

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In the city that we’d lived in,

There were many big willow trees.

In the hot and humid summer,

They gave us nice shade and breeze.

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Willow trees always gave off

A lot of catkins in the spring.

Like a snowflake, a catkin is

A sort of white and fluffy thing.

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Each catkin carries some seeds,

The willow trees’ sons and daughters,

On their long seeding journey,

They fly over lands and waters.

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Catching catkins with my friends

On a beautiful spring day

Was my favourite game,

I was very glad to say.

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We children happily jumped

And ran in the spring sunlight.

The catkins liked to play with us.

They often stopped their seeding flight.

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Waiting for us to catch them,

The catkins had a quick stay.

When we walked close and almost

Caught them, they flew far away.

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I missed my friends so much.

I looked at the snowy sky.

The view became blurry

But I still didn’t cry.

 

 

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