MAED -LANGUAGE TEACHING

FINAL EXAMINATION IN
LITERARY MASTERPIECES

SUBMITTED TO : SIVERLYN M. CAMPOSANO, PhD.

SUBMITTED BY : CATHERINE A. TROPICO

 STRANGER I FEEL

I should say “NO” to pretending

But my heart is still aching

I should say “STOP crying

But my tears are raining

I seek someone to comfort me

But no one cares to know and give sympathy

It feels so outcast

It feels so down

It makes me feel like I’m always be a burden

That everybody is tired to care

I feel like I am a stranger!

Worst! No one ever wants to talk with stranger

Unloved, unaccepted, that’s what I feel.

And no one ever cares to hear

They said that it takes time to heal

But my heart and mind could no longer bear.

Interpretation:

This poem was written during my college days. This poem was written because this
was the time that I lost my academic scholarship and my older sister was planning to
get married. I was a working student by then, and I lived with my sister in a boarding
house, we separately paid our bills monthly for our rent. And I paid my own tuition fees.
My sister helped me with our daily foods. When I learned that she’s planning to get
married and planned to moved out from our boarding house to live together with her
boyfriend it melted my heart so much. I really felt that they don’t care about me. And I
felt like they are already tired of helping me. I know that my parents could not afford to
send me to college that’s why I find my own ways and really work hard while I’m
studying to sustain my daily needs, allowance, projects, my excess miscellaneous in
school, and so on. I couldn’t even share my feelings to my other sisters because they
have their own families, and I know financially they were also struggling. So, I felt like I
was a stranger. They didn’t care what life would bring for me especially when they just
told me to stop my studies. Though they didn’t mean to stop forever but for me it would
be forever. Thus, this made me shed my tears and felt so down. And I felt like no ever
cares for me. No one ever cares to feel what I feel. But I have to make them all believe
that I was fine. I needed to make them believe that I can do it because if I let them
know that I felt so down, I might be another burden for them. I might be the reason to
hinder their happiness.

So, the tone of this poem is really so sad and hopeless. It really speaks pain and asking
someone to care.