tha goal agam ort (i love you) - Mars Pierce

Hello! My name is Mars Pierce, and I am a junior at UAlbany. I'm a Journalism major with a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor, as well as a Creative Writing minor. I'm happy to say that I am also a UAlbany Ambassador and part of Serendipity Acapella! Between music and writing, it's safe to say I love all things creative, and I am so excited to share two of my pieces in this edition of Arch.

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i am from a country i’ve never known, but one i might’ve called home 

in another lifetime  

where i wasn’t staring at 

two pictures 

with faces that resemble my own: 

a man named peter 

who worked in woolen mills  

and played bagpipes now gone, and a woman named mary 

who baked shortbread and shepherd’s pie in the cape cod house they built together.

i am from stamps dating 

june 25, 1921, 

the date that changed my history from highland rains to new york winters that have frostbitten my fingers and created a longing that lingers

to see the romanticized world i’ve created. 

i long to go past the century-old papers connecting the small pieces i’ve heard of the story so quickly lost that i’m trying to learn 

for which i’ve just grabbed the key. 

dinna fash— 

don’t worry— 

i will discover this piece of me.