Bell

Like a drop of tear drop into a pool of agony,

My voice reverberates across a vast thin air,

Perhaps my heart has already sunken into the deep

dark abysmal ocean, pressured and compartmentalized

into a small box chained by gravity so heavy.

But my voice still rings the air, singing the hums of the stories

that filled my eyes and the lungs that still breaths

dancing in the waves of sound so lively and calm.

6.21.2020

Bicycle

Pedaling on a blue bike, paean of breezy winds bumping along the road

Rumbling sounds of SUVs and pick up trucks passing by, rowdy kids jumping into the lake half naked

Roaring laughter fading away, riding down a long lonely road in between the animate and inanimate nature

Blazing through a carpet of gold laden by the bleeding yolk of the sunset

Rolling stone within the heart spins faster and faster, unleashing the monster hunkered for a thousand of years

Then — whirl — and — crash.

A reaper stands on the door expressionlessly peaking its bald skull over the door sill.

Like a dusky cloud on a simple summer night.

6.17.2020

24 hours

At first, it’s too long,

Then later, it’s too short.

Just as you’ve turned your 4th page of your moleskin notebook with a pilot G-2 0.5 pen,

It’s 7:30 PM and now you push the floor away from your chest as hard as you can

Then a question arises: “is an isolation a poison?”

Panic sinks in, four limbs plunging in

To the ocean of screens spinning in

The seconds, minutes, hours, and days

But remember, the time won’t stay.

6.15.2020

Ticket

Everyone has their last shot

To shoot at someone

And everyone is pointing their target with their weapon at all times.

No one knows when it will trigger,

And no one knows when they’ll change their target.

Whether what comes out of their weapon is a teardrop, am innocent smile, or a sharp loaded question, no one knows.

You kneel and pray that you’ll come out of safe and sound.

But the rule is, everyone points to something at all the time.

6.14.2020

Clouds

Wind blows, sky darkens, air weighs heavier, making rumbling sounds like an abdomen about to have terrible bouts of diarrhea

A man in a cave contemplates whether to venture outside or hunger inside

Will the rain soak my socks? Will I shiver with hunger? Will I be fatigued with bone-piercing cold?

A man in a cave realizes a bucket of honey he saved deep inside the cave two years ago

He immediately digs further inside the cave, pushing through even the walls shelling him from the rain and the elements.

Soaked in rain and shivering with freezing hands, he dug up the bucket, started sucking on the mellifluous globs.

Already forgotten all about the rain and the cold.

6.11.2020

Empty Room

Staring into the room across the street from mine in the middle of the night was one of my habits for the past few weeks

Tonight, I realized that the room was empty. I could no longer see the person back of her head staring into her wide screen monitor as she consoled her loneliness throughout the night.

Tonight, I stared into the empty room lit with a warm yolk color light, beaming as if to welcome the lonely eyes that had become a regular to this space.

Staring into the room across the street from mine in the middle of the night, I wondered where the previous occupant will be staring into her blue monitor tonight.

6.9.2020

Wave

Plunge into the legions of wave crashing forward.

There’s nothing to worry afterward.

Yes, a fate is to be gambled as always,

Yet that’s where the fun is at anyways.

Whisper of Death is always nigh,

Not a single wave will deny

Such delicious chance to swallow

A soul dancing such as a swallow.

Spare me your contemplation ’til my funeral

Ripe is the time; alight is my resolution;

Surfing through a narrow path, for the path is ephemeral

Ride through the legions in blitz like a blind man in indignation

6.8.2020

Fury

Open your eyelids wide,

Don’t forget what is true and what is fake,

Baiting on your mind so fragile (yet you do not know)

Silent orcas looms underneath dark shadows of the blue ocean.

Stare up into the sky, ponder upon the nets of constellation,

True north is where you’re bound,

Open your eyes wide and stay vigilant.

The end will be already here.

6.7.2020