Jiali

Jiali Jan 2021

Light! Ah, light. At last.
The dull grey vanadium
Even burns full blast!
No need to breathe,
Just take the heat
And soon you'll never
Know defeat!
Victory! Victory, at last;
A great pile of ashes-
That is all that will last.
On this meagre battlefield
For all that will not yield.

27/01/21 22:31

#fire #light #courage #rhetoric

Jiali Jan 2021

ABSURDITY

These days she has her eyes half-closed
As if she could only bear to see half the world
And these days she says
She would rather feel pain over this numb
As she slices herself open
In search of a better layer of skin
Like a moulting spider, upturned, and hanging from a branch.

17/11/20 22:51
Reach out
Hold a hand
You are loved

Jiali Jan 2021

FACETME CALL

And softly, he exhaled,
Tattooed chest falling
Like the tide
In rhythmic succession,
My mind
Wondering whether or not I loved him
Right then.
Cigarette smoke drifting in circles
Tantalising around his lips
As if glass could shatter
If I reached out
From the screen,
Fingertips grazing the surface
of someone so close, so clear,
Somewhere far, far away.

22/01/21 11:18

Jiali Jan 2021

Haocheng

Dein kahler Kopf leuchtet
wie tausend Äpfel
Ich bin sehr ungeordnet
Aber du bist eine Freude für meinen Augapfel

20/02/21 00:49

#tomybestfriend

Jiali Jan 2021

MY BED, HALF-EMPTY

Was it three years since you left
The hospital bed?

Now I sleep alone in our bed,
Still clinging to the left
Side, sobbing silently,
On our white sheets
Soaked blue.
With the fuzzy velvet
Sound of your voice
That I can barely remember.

It took less than three years
For your voice in my head
To merge into mine.
If they're your words or mine
I can no longer tell-
Drifting to the right
Side, slowly.

19/01/21 16:19

Jiali Jan 2021

MONDAY

i think maybe i'll write
on soju and beer
and blow cigarette smoke on the page
the words that appear
make me think that i fear
a lifetime in my head

19/01/21 14:48