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cecilia-kwong
cecilia-kwong
American And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. / - Paulo Coelho
My eyes climb upwards and meet concrete Like passersby on a shooting star As the lights seem to flicker, so dim, so bright My breath gets caught as gravity sinks and I can see the space between the Way My world trembles as I inhale Torrents become art as the moon phases linger on my very fingertips Murmurs of a prayer on my lips As I dig and mine deeper and deeper My skin sways as my bones are suspended In the fabrication of all the crevices and faults Break into fragments becoming the past Only for it to remain in the present as dust A cover for me to sleep under my layers I see Icarus flying downwards with the Sun on his back, and the wax becomes milky Frothing the darkness and leaving trails A bird brushes back its ash, combing through Dark velvet as it awakes the candle choir My hopes are on a flying comet Soaring past infinity and through Your lens, the sand flowing nearby would one day capture the light I have in my life, and we can all breathe Yes, that is the way to go
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 2:05 PM UTC
Artificial Gravity
Words reach flesh Like red fodder Since they feel just _thinking_ Caught a mouse under Lion toes, caving in _You're mine to crush_ _To belittle_ Give me a Catch-22 And I'll give you Twenty Two to Catch - and inhale Respect those around you with nimble toes, gentle hearts of melted iron With faces touching, seeing, and consuming the nearby Earth that dyes green and blue, gripping the sky Children reach bones as adults crawl, searching for necessity _We try_ Because there is a hope that cries true and loud. That this is what we will ever need. So inhale. And feel.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
I. To Breathe
Colours have no direction. I see. A flash of dashing white *Dark skin crashes against white tank top, pressing forward And her braids fly, cutting air, slicing to let her* go *And she goes, one single Breath, fleeing cars, unyielding to crosswalks and lights Never side glancing to the honks and the white man, orange hand* *Her feet makes ripples on pavement, noting to go, to go, she must go A human life, ten toes Whenever she wants, she goes* *She is the apparition She molds herself through Graffiti and concrete, leaving trails on others' shadows' Feet* What makes a human want something so bad To run away, to get to And to forget all the things That can end you She must be alive.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 12:28 AM UTC
Apparition: Running
Walking on stone pavement, rainy, swift some parts smooth, some parts eroded pebbles at the feet of sandaled soles umbrellas swipe the view, fogging you Cars, bikes, children, zooming against time, and the rush of voices, tones heard and I lose myself in this wave of foreign yet such familiar interference And I find, curled like newborn babes But wizened, people, like in prayer head down, on red, white, blue bags with hands dangling in peace, towards earth Their hands, aged like leaves in a distant land cracks down the back, underneath rough cotton and skin touches skin as I pry yours open only to find a single coin, crumpled with pressure My feet falls behind yours, slackened Your face is filled of golden sand, ready to burst, and I know that your veins know no mercy, as they course hopes through labor At the ground, pitter patter, are the sounds of your breath and gaze And I know we are alike, only difference, decision, the coordinates Pitter Patter Raindrops calling out your feelings, louder than the commotion around us, drenching the ground, drizzling the man-made louder and Louder
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 2:44 AM UTC
A Day in GZ: On a rainy day I found You
Around me are trains, going everywhere with people of means Huddled in their puffy coats, face glistening from kisses The snow on eyelashes of haze, making them cry For something in their lives stays silent and loud All I see is just a blur, clearly the movements of a crowd The train arrives clack clack clack clack clack cla-         I sit next to a man, broad sloping shoulders         Staring at bright coloured slogans against the harbor         My eyes noticed them, and linoleum floors abundant         his child, bubblegum candy in her hair, eyes closed         and our ears are attracted to her breathing         A boy in blue against the blurry water view         Raises his eye upwards, grinning         With a paper patch, a Crayola work of gauze         Fatherly hands ruffle the head, both smile         and *yo ** yo ** a pirate’s life for...* My mind jerks back to what it once was The conductor’s voice seeps through the corridors A toned down velvet mixed with earthly undertones As we all stepped back to ground, and the platform        carries away the distance in something so close
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 5:03 PM UTC
From Green to Red