who on every corner bothers you with his
"can you spare a quarter?"
This is an image I see every day in Prishtina, of a poor child seeking out for money trying to ensure his living and probably his families too, it is sad but true that they do bother us and somehow are unpleased of them. Sometimes we show mercy and spare a quarter but mostely not,The child in the poetry wants to be accepted by others and have a happy life as other children of his age do. That the child is unwanted is mentioned many times in the poetry, he feels ashamed of it, and he does admit that if he could he would steal your wallet because he has to. Even thought he describes himself to be a criminal he is just like everyone of us and wishes just the same as everyone of us, hope, support, freedom, accompany, and a shelter. The title "My Lover the Sea" expresses exactly this, as the sea is something endless and liberty. The child is not free in sense of being captured but he is not free in the sense that he is forced by his hunger to do something he dosent want to.
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