our old home
pencil sketch by dsnake1
our old home
looking out of the taxi from the viaducts
of the expressway
i saw the lights in the huge yards bathing the port
like day
the containers stacked as neatly as colourful
lego bricks
the cranes over them like metal brachiosauruses
breathing steam
once upon a time my cousin and i
catch catfishes
where the giant ships at the wharves
now berthed
not caring about the stings
or drowning
today as the last evening lights
scattered off
offices and warehouses ringed by a
chain-link fence
casting shadows and memories on a
concrete strip
there used to stand a house where I
called home.
15/11/2013
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"Tomorrow, we will be flying over the South China Sea
& home"
dsnake1 - lonely when away from home
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