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(love song, with two goldfish)

(He’s a drifter, always
floating around her, has
nowhere else to go. He wishes
she would sing, not much, just the scales;
or take some notice,
give him the fish eye.)

(Bounded by round walls
she makes fish eyes
and kissy lips at him, darts
behind pebbles, swallows
his charms hook, line and sinker)

(He’s bowled over. He would
take her to the ocean, they could
count the waves. There,
in the submarine silence, they would share
their deepest secrets. Dive for pearls
like stars.)

(But her love’s since
gone belly-up. His heart sinks
like a fish. He drinks
like a stone. Drowns those sorrows,
stares emptily through glass.)

(the reason, she said
she wanted)
(and he could not give)
a life
beyond the
(bowl)

By Grace Chua

1 month ago

There is a funny looking glass

Where I see you not me

On the otherside of the looking glass is where I want to be.

I wish I did not stare at you

When you don’t stare at me

Or that I didn’t blush

Or didn’t smile

Or waste my time.

You’re far away

You’re far gone

On the otherside of the looking glass

And you don’t notice me.

I built a ladder to the moon

But it’s only out of reach

So close that I skim it

So close that I just miss it

Do I jump to grasp it?

Do I risk the fall to Earth?

Or I do sit and watch it?

Do I walk back down?

And forever look back to the moon

All the way from the ground?

At least I’ll say tried

At least I’ll always know

At least have this under my belt

I’ll have the scars to show.

I fight two battles,

I live two lives,

I have two places

I want to reside.

Safe in two arms

But reaching for two more,

It’s hardly fair.

It’s love in war.

I love you!

I love you!

I love you two. —

My darlings! My darlings!

I’m forever at war

An army of one can’t settle two scores

Hands move slowly on a clock when all you do is wait

tick. tick. tick. tick.

All you’re life is frozen

The tables are turning, your head is spinning

But all is quite but the sounds

tick. tick. tick.

Run, run as fast as you can

The days, the hours, the minutes will find you

tick. tick.

But all you do is wait.

tick.

boom.

The head and the heart are always at war

And it never seems to make sense

The heart always knows what I want

But the head knows what I can’t have

And my heart never minds my mind

And my head never minds my heart

My heart is as stubborn

As my head is wise

And its hard to pick what’s right

Because follow your head

Or follow your heart

You’re leaving a part of you behind

Please discredit all the words

That spill out of my heart

For they are but small things

They mean nothing to strangers

Little to friends

But the world to those who love.

Oh I do digress

Such awful generalization I’ve made

For friends can be strangers,

Strangers become friends,

And anyone can love.

These are the small things that fill up my memories

I don’t remember big things so well because theres no room

But the small things are ones that find places to hide

Until a day when I stumble upon them

And then sit for awhile in my remembrance

And smile sweetly to myself

And then I hide it back in memories

So I can stumble back upon it again

I live in a perfect world I’ve made up on my own

Where everything is good.

You’re there with me all the time

And everything’s as it should.

But good things last but for a moment

And as all things I recall

You were never mine

You were never here

It had never been at all.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

e.e. cummings

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