POEM 3 ~ COMPOSED INDIVIDUALLY BASED ON A STORY OF MY CHOICE
Story: The Chosen One
Title: An happy ending
Mary is an old lady,
who wears black long-sleeved cotton blouses and loose pants,
and sell bottles of sweets and packets of dried ginger and plum.
Whenever her sweets and small biscuits go soft,
she shed tears and dream of the little coins that would fill up her her large pocket in her blouse.
She offers prayers for Kuan Yin, the Most Merciful Goddess,
and prays for her to take her away to Heaven to live with her forever,
as it seems death was the most desirable way out of her misery.
Her prayers were answered,
when Kuan Yin visited her in her dreams.
Kuan Yin tells Mary that her prayer is heard for the fact that she is a pure soul.
She would take her away to heaven seven days later,
and said that she would make her one of her fourteen handmaidens in heaven.
Mary awoke with tears of joy in her eyes,
and scurried off preparing for Kuan Yin's coming.
She took out all her money from a rusty biscuit tin,
and bought a coffin.
Then she sat there beside her coffin in her tehement house,
which is where she shared with other old people,
and waited for the grand arrival of Guan Yin.
To everyone's surprise,
Mary didn't die.
In fact on the day that Guan Yin is supposed to come,
it is said that a strange, beautiful flower bloomed on a piece of waste land behind Mary's house. She claimed that this flower was a sign from heaven from her,
to continue to live on Earth and do good deeds.
After this incident,
Mary was able to perform miracles by curing the sick.
Seeing the grateful devotees filling up the rusty biscuit tin with tokens of appreciation,
Mary felt happy at last.
