Dear all,
Attached is a new poem which I have written recently.... Hope you
enjoy it...
Just a passing prodigal
Love Story
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Tell me a love story
and offer me a happy one
Tell me another love story
and refrain from a sad one
So I heard many tales of love,
where the best moved me
from one end of the Universe to the another
where the worst that we learned
threw us into the treacherous pits of Hell.
How much time do we know of love?
Is love a mere reaction for completion
where one seeks the other by purely superficial whims
or one finds the other thru the passing of time :
a brief second to have a crush,
Ten minutes to be infatuated
and perhaps a day to fall in love
yet a lifetime to really forget a person you love.
Are we not actors merely
playing our roles on the stage?
Are we not jesters surely
dancing with the twists of irony?
Does love really end when lovers part?
I beg not and I wish not,
like a string that does not break
when one could never see another again.
yet sometimes plagued by a rhetorical question :
Am I that fragment in your memory
that vanished without a trace
when you decided to leave for another?
Such is nostalgia like a grammar lesson,
where one finds the present tense and past perfect.
Such is love like a double edged sword,
which one could either be healed or hurt by Her.
Such is passion as a desire,
when Disappointment laughs mercilessly on our follies.
Such are the uncertainties of Destiny
in the weaving of a fragile fabric tinged with love and hate
Such are my lamentations
grown weary of the strange twists and turns
by Fate's mysterious wheel.
And yesterday, I was the Prince charming
of your elaborated fairy tale
where today, my time was up and another appeared,
and tomorrow I would be totally forgotten
stripped of my royalty which I once held
The cycle continue, in a beginning with an end.
Love is a dream, life is a dream,
Half our lives wasted, just for one dream.
Yet, torn between the edges of hope and despair,
in the spirit of a sentimentalist,
Hear me, and hear me again,
It is journey in the love story
that made it all worthwhile to seek
whether the ending is beautiful or ugly.
Written on
25 May 2000
Inspired by a song of Sammi Cheng entitled "Love Story"
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"I wish that I could have the love of a woman who could come to my
life, lift me from sorrow, depression and loneliness, and push me
to higher heights. However, love is not about finding someone to
relieve you, but love is about you devoting your heart and soul to
love that someone, even if you know that someone do not love you
the way you do."
- Prodigal
