I have seen them all.
Twenty-nine year old children
excitedly asking for seats by the window

even before handing over their passports.

Primary school kids
overwhelmed

not by departure -
but the parting hands and words
of anxious parents.

Two types of students:
one whose expectation is torn by sorrow
the other whose expectation sweetens his sorrow.

Smartly attired businessmen
the wrinkles of their suits
driven out by an iron
 
only to find new homes
on their foreheads.

Bangladeshi workers and Filipino maids
the pungent scent of their hopeful language

lighting the air.
Man and man finding marriage

outside marriage
filling the half-moons of each other's ears
with honeyed words.

Siamese twins:
the intrepid backpacker and his backpack.

The American tourist
who wonders why we smile so much

but laugh so little.
The Singaporean tourist

departing his foreign homeland
for home in a foreign land.