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| Hannah Wilson Class of 2017 |
In the summer, I am going away.
I do not yet know what that means.
I plan to leave and stay,
simultaneously,
do you understand?
I may rendition "Eat. Pray. Love.
But without the praying and
without the loving
and maybe without the eating.
I fear Africa won't be Africa enough.
Africa speaks volumes
of solitude,
with its large, open deserts and
grasslands and jungles
so many places
to lose oneself,
to not be known, to not be known.
We want to be understood without being known.
We want to be
loved
without being exposed.
Foolish, we are,
thinking everyone can be some kind of
Africa.
I do not yet know what that means.
I plan to leave and stay,
simultaneously,
do you understand?
I may rendition "Eat. Pray. Love.
But without the praying and
without the loving
and maybe without the eating.
I fear Africa won't be Africa enough.
Africa speaks volumes
of solitude,
with its large, open deserts and
grasslands and jungles
so many places
to lose oneself,
to not be known, to not be known.
We want to be understood without being known.
We want to be
loved
without being exposed.
Foolish, we are,
thinking everyone can be some kind of
Africa.
Hannah Wilson is a sophomore McConnell Scholar at the University of Louisville. She studies philosophy, women and gender studies, and political science.