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

Flick

Flick – and the sunrise jumped behind the horizon

Flick – and the glory and pain disappeared, loneliness re-emerged from a dark pool

Flick – and the painstakingly piled blood, seat, and tears twirled into a whisper of flame

Flick – a chubby cat just lazily walked down the street. Peaceful as ever.

6-20-2020

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