If I didn’t have tomorrow

If I didn’t have tomorrow,

I would give you all of today.

But if today is not enough,

remember we have yesterday.

If I didn’t have tomorrow,

would you give me a moment today?

But if today doesn’t have a moment,

you are an everlasting memory.

Oh, if I didn’t have tomorrow…

JY
(28.01.2016)

 

Spin

Tamar Park, Admiralty, Hong Kong (May 2015)

In a constant spin
I carve your face
with frozen hands
numb from the memories of you

Unexpected twists
leaving dents in the normal
the twirling frees from marks that question
your name escapes me again, but the legend

Fading into a brain fog
where there’s plenty of space
but no room to remember
where sleep tiptoes
and I gently walk into the morning

In sunlight’s grace
smiling
I can’t forget
how the stars spelt out your name
in my dreams
It’s a dream come true

Propelling to space
where constellations abound
we roam in circles that don’t click
In this
I found a clique

Your wish is my command
and my command is that you wish -click!

You’re a wheel of life
and a wheel in mine
where it’s easier to see you roll
than walk away in a straight line
Between three-sixty and 365
I would never trade this roller coaster ride

Redundant words are
with the grace of your speed
But they are where I don’t want to miss you anymore.

JY
(11/10/2015)

 

Claws

Disfigured by winter’s scars,

dry lips, they bleed while cracking.

Bone-dry skin kept hands

engaged with scratching.

Words, they crawl,

defrosting the mouth,

while the bouquet of flowers

do their spring-cleaning

The claws,

no match were they for patience tapping

that when they’d loosened up,

pachyderms would troop into the room.

Suppression fought tooth and nails

to delay eviction,

how big, the world, seasoned people had forgotten.

It’s the same bright world

that houses big brother’s game,

you claw your way out until you restore your name.

It’s the same wide world where drifters leave home

to find another home.

No picture will be bigger than

the frame with our families.

No perspectives shall be smaller than

the edges between our eyes

No matter how deep,not even claws

can get a grip on the

marks they leave in our lives.

It is separation that tells us

how people have touched our lives

JY

24/10/2013

 

Without You

Give me a little room

I’ve forgotten myself in this house

Always busy becoming

to where i am going

don’t know where I’m heading

Chorus:

All I’ve got

is

hurting myself

returning to nowhere

without

love

I’m no one

without

God

there’s no one

Yet I’m home

in my room

Was a little

too much

to ask from this home

I asked for my space

You shut me out

Now close to what I thought I’d be

Is someone I can never become

Strangers you’ll never become

A stranger

I’ll never become

Always busy becoming

to where I am going

I’m lost

but I’m moving

Chorus II

All I’ve got

is

finding myself

missing  your love

without

you

I’m no one

Without

you

in my heart

I’ve no home

but this room

what’s this room

without you

Life is empty

Without you…

‘Cause

All I’ve got

is

hurting myself

returning to nowhere

without

love

I’m no one

without

God

there’s no one

Yet I’m home

in my room

Was a little

too much

to ask from this house

I asked for my space

I shut you out

JY

21/08/2013

 

When You’re Ready

Take me to your heart

I want to understand

the things that took your love away

when you gave everything

I want to know what it feels to be loved by everything

not only at something

not only with some things

but even with nothing

Experiences make us bolder

while lessons make us wiser

So even if we break into pieces

again

we will never feel broken

by then

we would have learned

to embrace…

that not everything we have completes us

not everything we have defines us

and those are what truly make us

Love, let’s embrace when we’re ready

You will know when you’re ready

JY

12/08/2013