Dark Angel

It was you, all the time
Standing from a distance
A silhouetted shadow
Like a phantom of my imagination.

Who are you, unnamed stranger?
Who always remained in the shadows
Stalking me in the dark
Protecting me from afar.

Hide no more, dark angel
I've seen the bulge on your shoulders
The folded wings on your back
Now let me see you in the light.

Fading

Sometimes
It seems that the world has closed its eyes on me
Like the golden age of every empire
I'm fading into nihility.


The abyss lurks malignantly beneath my feet
As I cling, desperately
To a sheer gossamer thread 
Baleful eyes scrutinize me from the dark. 


I'm stranded in a bottomless pit
While the world thrives above me
I'm exhausted but I don't let go
Perhaps it makes me feel connected to the world.

Daisy

Red hair in the wind
Fiery shadow of a monstrous fire
Like a stubborn flame
Refusing to surrender.

Daisy
That was her name
Rolling off the tip of my tongue
I taste the verdant meadows of Lady Spring.

I wonder if she remembered
As she took her last parting breath
The crunch of grass beneath our feet
When we ran down the grassy slopes.

I watched the light dim in her eyes
Farewell, Daisy
Love of my life.

I Think I Will Not Kill Myself Today

A gust of wind whistles past my ear
I think I will not hang myself today
After all
Who's to say tomorrow won't be a better day?

Still, the rope lies in my hands
Like a coil of snake entwined to me
Do I really want to hang myself?
T'will make my face a hideous blue.

Surely the sun will shine again
And the eclipse shall be no more
Still, the dream of eternal slumber
Brings me precariously closer to the brink of death.

I think I will not kill myself today
Death will remain a wild fantasy
A clandestine dream tucked safely behind my mind
My secret sanctuary.

Hey Butterfly

Hey butterfly
Tell me where you've been
I see you dancing under the radiant sun
And fluttering in the gentle breeze.

Gossamer wings winking in the light
A rainbow of colours against the grassy hue
Little innocent butterfly
Do you know what it means to despair?

Six dainty feet on a petal
Then up and away into the big blue sky
Oh beautiful butterfly
Tell me how it feels to be free.

Midnight Masquerade

It is the middle of the night
Dark creatures have come out to play
Things that are blinded by the sun
Are dancing in the shadow of the moon.

Lavish dresses with golden embroidery
Swirl across the dewy ground
Who knows what demon lurks
Beneath the beautiful masks.

Music and laughter fill the night
I shiver at the macabre sounds
But the night is still horrendously young
And the midnight masquerade has just begun.

P.S. I just love Venetian masks. They're another one of Italy's finest treasure. Perhaps I should dedicate a post solely for them since I have so many pictures.

Lonely Heart

Note: This post is inspired by a movie I watched weeks ago. And I can't remember it. Must be all the crap I stuffed into my head during my exam.

I'm clinging to the last shimmer of hope
Like a single ray of light through the gloom
Yet it treads barefooted on broken glass
And eventually fades away.

The sun pours its heat onto earth
My skin feels scorched
Yet deep down in my heart
The gelid cold remains untouched.

Why do I seek isolation
When I am already lonely?
The dark envelopes me in a tight embrace
And I am hidden, from the world.

Canker in the Rose's Heart

He comes like a phantom

Cloaked in black velvet

I hear the honey in his voice

And succumb to the beauty of his face.

A tingle spreads from the crevices of my bones

This dark, dangerous stranger

Who feeds on my passion 

Like a truculent incubus.

He comes in the night

And wanders in my dreams

An angel with black wings

The canker in the heart of a rose. 

10 Things Desperate People Should Do (Before the exam)

Note: I am not responsible for any injuries sustained. The conducts below are not advisable for children below three.

1. Chew your hair while staring at an incomprehensible equation.

2. Tell yourselves that it's okay to flunk Add Maths because it's astupid beautifully intricate subject.

3. Drink lots of caffeine to stay awake while trying to understand (unsuccessfully) Physics.

4. Eat lots of chocolate, get a temperature, skip the exam.

5. Bang your head on the wall (hard, preferably drawing blood) and pretend that you've gone retarded. Then miraculously recover after the exam.

6. Write love poems to the subjects you think you'll flunk.

7. Burst out in tears directly before the exam and start screaming like hell. Trust me, the teacher will insist that you don't take the paper.

8. Sleep on the reference book because according to the law of diffusion, particles will move from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration. Therefore, knowledge will flow into your empty brain. (Genius, right?)

9. Eat lots and lots and lots of fish. Replace everything you normally eat with fish. Don't drink water, drink fish stock. Why? Because fish will make you smarter, duh!

10. Write a guide about what desperate people should do.

Fyi, I've done five.

Why Don't You Love Me?

My sweetest love
Won't you open your heart to me?
What arcane secrets lie
In your unfathomable mind?

Tell me, dearest darling
You know how I pine for you
I long to trap you in my arms
But you were never within my grasp.

Cruel, callous love
Why do you elude me?
Add math, my deep dark love
Let me hold you to my heart.

P.S. Okay, I'm maybe a little not crazy. Yianthin, Wenjuin and Yanying said that if I wrote a love poem to Add Maths I'll getgood better grades. Let's pray (yes, all of you, pray) that I get okay-results.

Sadie in Hell

The wind howls like a pack of wolves
Oh hungry, rabid animals
They're here to tear me apart
Run, whispers my little frightened heart.

Pins and needles prick my face
My lips part for a terrified scream
Yet the shriek dies in my throat
When I realised it's only the cold.

Don't cry, little Sadie, says the Devil
You are here to stay
I look up to the lurid sky and see
Hell's Bells ringing above me.

P.S. Add maths and Physics are killing me. Oh Lucifer, I don'tbelong in hell.

A Dream Within A Dream

Note: Many thanks to Edgar Allan Poe.

Here she comes, oh golden twilight

Cloaked in pulchritude, a shimmering gown

I wish I could sleep forever

For I see her only in my dreams.

Oh Stygian nights!

How do I find such splendour

In your blessed darkness?

Phantom of dreams, stay with me!

Leave me not, muse of dreams

I crave your delicate lies and illusions

For all that I see it seems

Is but a dream within a dream.

P.S.Please take note of tomorrow's (3rd of March) Star Paper, Stuff at School section. Thanks!