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Second Day of Mourning

The second day of mourning is always grey,
When the grandeur of elaborate pain
Fades into a comprehensible dawn.

The asthmatic morning laboured to wheeze a few
Competent breaths to last from bus to school.
A grim visage canopies a lurching heart that still stumbles
In the quicksilver and endless corridors of remembering.

Mourning seems such a vain thing.
It crys aloud to be seen, solicits pity with
Conscious tears and wanton dysphoria,
Damns an implosion with a paradoxical front.

Trudging up the overhead bridge that prevent dented fenders
And stubborn bloodstains on the roads,
The sweaty morning clings onto my skin and sorrow
Weighing with the symbolism of exertion.

By Gaston Ng


QLRS Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

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  Other Poems in this Issue

Beethoven, Opus 92
By Zhang Ruihe.

The Wall
By Eugene Datta.

Morning
By Eugene Datta.

February
By Ng Shing Yi.

The News
By Joanne Leow.

You make it easy to leave you
By Wendy Gan.

ICU
By Grace Chua.

Memento Mori X
By Yeow Kai Chai.

 

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