| today you were reborn you were waiting at the cusp of a new life today even the polluted air was a fresh breeze your heart slowed until you couldn’t feel it everything passed through your sunlit glass people began singing, who hadn’t been heard every life you had lived came back to you being still drew forth your torment how the warmth of those loved is emptied what obsessions cannot be found here you are reminded of everyone lost why you attach to those so tightly destruction is your unfinished work in a moment this too shall pass come again with an outstretched hand there is no closure to your life press this flower as a remembrance be still, be still if you can take it this day lies asleep in perfection your quietude became the whole day -- Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien |