Late, late at night, you can hear the city breathing in and out. All its dreams and darknesses pulsing back and forth, pushing softly against your thoughts, trying to nestle into a corner of your mind. Even later, in the transition between very late and very early, you can smell the futility and madness of …
Category: My Literary Column
Saddening
It's saddeningTo make friends and break them again,Because we are only here to visit,only here for some time. DarknessThen we came alongAnd there will be darkness again one day.Yes, life is so precious,So precious to be able toOpen your eyes and see time pass,things change,and streetlights grow yellow that it's just saddening, deeply saddeningto pay back …
Little Dots of Light
Touch me gently I'm losing my hold I'm letting go My last fingers just curled around the tether. Behind me, little dots Little dots of light Stars of yore in the cold frightening firmament. And I am losing hold. It's so dark outside of me And not a friend in sight I look inside for …
Something So True
How could something so true Become something so false? It takes me by complete surprise every time. This, my life, It's turning out like a dream. Where everything rests firm On an unfirm rest. Where friend and lover are a flicker of transience To float across the scene and disappear as a twilight to remember …
Turn Around
This time I finally turned around You don’t know what it’s like To live in fear of your own self Fear of your failures So much, you forget to breathe. But then I turned around. Not quite, for this is real life. And I know I just have to drag this on for some more …
One Life 