Ice Cold

Author’s Note: We are writing this piece to show our knowledge of creating parodies. We are doing so by creating a parody to the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes and putting it along with the book Waiting for You by Susan Colasanti.

Marissa,
My life ain’t no calm walk on the beach;
I’ve been waiting in the ocean blue,
Waves come,
Same as they pass.

But when the right wave comes,
There is no mistaking
And that wave was you.

And while there may be rocks
In this water I am waiting in
The wait is nothing
Compared to you

So go forth Marissa,
Wade into the water,
And explore,
What this world had to hold.

Come wade out in the water,
Marissa,
And no longer will you be,
Ice cold.



This poem was written by Nash to Marissa and shows a great relation to how Nash feels about Marissa and how he wants her to feel the same way. The tone of this poem is persuading, it is just this because of the way Nash is trying to convince Marissa to give him a chance. The mood in the poem is just as well because we were trying to write this poem in a sense that Nash is trying to show Marissa how much he cares about her and convince her that maybe she could care about him the same way.