2026 - 004 Poetry | Your Answer to the Question I’ve Asked
Horizontal for two hours.
Delayed in the terminal.
I can't decide which one of us is the daydream here. Watching
you lie there on the carpet. Your body is a slow moving
ball on the floor caught by my eyes, frame by frame.
That's how you want to be loved, you said. Frame by frame.
In layers. In a palette. A chord I can pluck. Make echoes
in succession. But unlike echoes, you want it clearer as
it goes farther and farther.
You sit up and yawn.
You pull me closer. Head in my shoulder.
Little fingertips on the coat of my spine.
L5 up to C1. Held in your love. Inescapable love.
Notes & References:
- Authored by me. Year 2022 August 14, Singapore.