(Aeroporto di Palermo) (Sicilia 49)

a hard? no.
b stressful? no.
c lonely? no.
d none of the above.

exactly why I mentally prepared for worse
no se.
why anyone goes beyond the challenging gates
and changes times to load up on these experiences
is the obvious force of the wind.
to blow us here, to places new.
to places unfamiliar, lost in our imaginations
as somewhere exotic.

but we struggle to believe it could be so easy.
language unknown we communicate.
people unknown we find friends.
country unknown we navigate.
exactly why I prepared for worse,
no se.
but exactly why I came,
solamente por la paz.