Luyện nghe bài hát I Travel Home

I travel home to remember the of morning
I choose the evening to pray I remember as it is
For when the city
When the of the green-line trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surround my senses diminishing this of my imagination

I will this
The silence and the night
I remember red sand on bare feet
My sticky glistening in the sun
My like untamed wool
I will remember the air thick of

I remember my mother in the night
And the children she for
I see them once more as they play
Peeking at me the crack in the doorway

I will remember my aunti-- her famous Jeloff
me in flawless Ishan native tongue
"Ofure...Onegbe?"...How is everything...you're too skinny"
And I, to keep up, clumsily responding
"Butayay aunti?" That means, I don't know what you just

I will remember the place
The selling smoked corn and plantain
The taste of moy-moy and
The of Doris pounding yam
Fresh oranges from the farm

When city lights mask the majesty of my favorite constellations
I will the moon...
and smiling
Because I am a
As if she that I am
Invested enough to about it
Perhaps because I am a
I will the unseen

The and the beggars, the roadside wanderers,
People just trying to
Children selling cell phones and unwanted trinkets
I will remember the local
Beaten and eroded by rain and
Huts built a 15 story hotel skyrise
So many having so
Neighbors with others living nothing
But the hand-me-downs on backs
And the realities of poverty their
Promises of

I leave behind my rose glasses
In my grandfather's
when my plane finally lands back in Boston
I want to believe that Nigeria me every time
These teach me how to recognize what we take for granted
Constant electricity and water
Hospitals on every
The to rise beyond our native borders
These are the details that a fate of becoming lost or forgotten
Like sounds of the
For when the city
the sound of the green-line trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surrounds my senses diminishing this version of my
I will this
I need to remember