Friday, April 08, 2005

i am home

i was checking out all my old floppy disks when i came across a poem i wrote sometime in july 2004.

i couldn't recognise it. when i read it, i could hardly believe that i wrote it...it's as though someone else wrote it and accidentally saved it on my diskette. it's not like a poem that i could possibly write now.

well, just wanna share it with you. hope you like it. do comment. =)

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I Am Home

How does the air embrace you as you run
free, through the coarse grains between your toes?
Does it wrap you in an invisible sheath
or touch you lightly through your hair?

When did the crimson flush of your cheeks greet
the world? Plump and radiant
as peaches fresh from the basket, and as sweet too.
Colour, against the grey of the ocean.

Where has your veil gone? The thin fineness
enveloping your face, shielding
from the harshness in the screaming wind of people
who dance and grab around you, away from the sea.
Muslin, draped, to hide the terror imprinted on your skin.
Where is it now?

I, who do not see you, feel your bare smile
upon the One who loves you, next to frothing waters
that lap against your ankles. It is warm,
and the cloth in your fist falls gently as you whisper,
"I am home."

lishun at 9:53 AM

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