''KEEPING THINGS WHOLE"
by Mark Strand
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
Where my body`s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
This poem relates to a Long Way Gone by Ishmel Beah
I think this poem relates to this book because in the lines
we all have reasons for moving Ishmel the boy in the book only keeps moving for his family.He hopes that one day he will see them again.In the lines where it says I am what is missing Ishmel is the one that is missing from his family and he feels as if he is missing a part of himself therefore he is what is missing from himself.He will not be able to fill in the empty space until he finds his family to complete him.
