"Uncomfortable"

On our trip to New England, our first stop was Pennsylvania. We dropped the girls off in Hershey at Hershey World Amusement Park, and Mike and I headed to Lancaster County to get a feel of Amish Country. One of the towns of Lancaster County we visited was Intercourse. It was a plethora of quilt shops and other little gift shops with many of the stores selling Amish goods and novelties. Many of the store employees were Amish and the experience, in my opinion, was that of a tourist attraction- similar to Nappanee and Shipshewana, Indiana which is about 2 hours from Chicago and our home.

Once we exhausted looking around the little towns, Mike and I headed out into the back roads. THIS was the experience I was looking for! We literally meandered through the winding back roads amidst the rolling hills and farmland. What a beautiful area of the country! In contrast to what we saw in the town- this "back road" experience gave us a real glimpse into the REAL Amish community.

OSI's prompt this week is "uncomfortable." Here is my poem for the prompt...

At the intersection of Here and There
Two worlds collide
Here
we are the Outsiders, the Interlopers...
somewhat uncomfortable in our watching, and observing, (invading?)
the plain lifestyles of these people
wanting to catch a glimpse of a slice of their daily lives~
so drastically and dramatically different from our own...
hoping to better understand
and appreciate all we have seen There.

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