(2013)
A poem about how sometimes the bright-eyed ambition and innocence of youth seems to fade.
Perplexity breathes Into the hearts of all men In heart beat matters We shy our true intent like An elephant in the vent
Just for a moment To glimpse from dusty pages A single white flash Tenuous seconds follow Until a roaring reply
Why does music speak Without line or threads of time We plug ourselves in Forming an echo cocoon Never wanting to come out
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
To grasp at the root This longing for the seasons Hidden deep, deep down To say it’s just “Natural,” Would only scratch the leaf-tops
Foggy morning sky Your veil remains untouched by The flags of Autumn How cruel of you to kidnap Such keen keepsakes of your kin
Ask me who he is A tall tree and branches keen words drop; leaves shaken I try to collect them all But forget them by the stream
A sudden rain flux A faintly calling whisper To turn off eyelids Yet I cannot shake my dream For just another hour
Archaic toiling Through endless character streams To drown deeper still Beneath black and white waters Until I breathe symbolly
Such sweet aroma Breathe in the color deeply Exhale precious wafts Crisp Citric spiral peelings, Fill my compost disposal
To cover the tears Some men will drown their sorrows Some just run away Some even will board their hearths To me? A path of rom-com
Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens
Words without meaning An open mouth seems empty Trying to express Something that dances lightly Forefront of a clouded heart
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
A soft fluttering A pulse that pushes beyond Beating of the heart Oh to express the joys of, A soap opera here and there