"The Traveling Onion"

Today as we read the poem The Traveling Onion I began to look at poetry in a new way. The first time that I read the poem I really did not like the poem. What I wrote on my paper was “I don’t understand its significance.” I also thought that it was humorous, but that was before I looked deeper into what the poem was trying to say. The second time that I read it I picked out a few different lines. One line that I picked out was “for the sake of others disappear.” Another line that I picked was “and I would never scold the onion for causing tears.” I like that line because I believe that it allows room for emotion. I think that was it is trying to say is that it is okay to cry. It is normal that an onion makes a person cry, and it is okay for those tears to fall. A lot of times we make ourselves feel like we cannot fully let our emotion out, but it is okay for certain things to make us cry.

This brings me to my next point. I love the line that says “it is right that tears fall for something small and forgotten.” This line makes me evaluate my life in a deeper way. One of my favorite worship songs is Hosanna. My favorite line in that song is “break my heart for what breaks yours.” This line is the cry of my heart. If my heart can truly be broken for the things that break my Jesus’ heart, then I will begin, in a very small way, to see from His point of view. The line that says “it is right that tears call for something small and forgotten” remind me of this song. I believe that Jesus’ tears fall for the small and the forgotten. If my heart can begin to see things in the way that Jesus sees things I believe that I will cry for the things that are small and forgotten.