Curved Straight World

 

 

 

By Clara, six-year old girl, Hong Kong
(Originally in Chinese, orally dictated)

 

 

Curved and straight.
I love curved and straight.
I go to a straight world.
There are two men in the
straight curved world;
One is curved and one is straight.
The two are friends.
To the kids, the whole world looks as a family.
A man said, 'Straight world;
This world is a curved shell.
Curved? But it's also straight,
So call it curved straight world.'

One day, straight world,
Straight world goes that way;
Curved world goes another way again.
There's war and fighting again,
But can't be divided, though relatively,
both are separate.

I'm on this side of curved world,
So family is on the curved world.
Slowly, slowly the straight world backed out,
Backed out and disappeared.
In the curved world, straight world disappeared,
Turned into curved world.
So what'll happen to straight world?
Doesn't know if he will miss, miss the world.

Oh, oh, straight world is in a cave;
Doesn't know how to play.
A man of straight world wants very much
To play with curved world.
It's a pity curved world is not together,
So he plays not,
Not happy, even with play.

'Look, look,
Jump on the tree!'
So I called
'Once on the tree,
Jump across the fighting men.
Once across, not separate then.'
'No!'
No one going, he walks, walks by himself;
No one walks with him.
Walk, walk, walk; walk, walk, walk,
Walking straightly, straightly walking,
Straight into the cave and sits down.
Suddenly sees a figure: one.
So what's that? What's that? What's that?
Poked at it, it moves.
'I'm afraid! I'm man of straight world.'
'Don't be afraid! Straight world, I support you.
What to do? I'll know, I'll know, I'll know.'
'Curved world, curved world
What to do, I know already.'
'So what to do?'
'So here, each man holding a tree,
A tree, there's a tree, grown a tree.
Spring over there, spring over there.
Sprung there, I go
Over there, then we can meet.'

Over there, and met, very happy.
All held a meeting.
Meeting's happy; I am happy.

Awakened, it's a dream -
Many men outside the window.
Men of curved world
With men of straight world.
So, it's only blurred vision!
Suddenly, in the whole house
Is One Man of curved straight world.
So it's done!
It turns out it's a holiday.
I'm on holiday.
Can come to your curved world fortress.
Curved world fortress can also go
To straight world fortress.
Make a curved straight world fortress.
Make a journey,
Make a journey to curved straight world!