Parfum d'Amour

It rises like an ecclesiastical incense

From the uncorked bottle:

Intoxicating, overwhelming and

Infinitely

More imbuing than

The buds of roses in May.

For all their silent breaths

Trapped in crystal vials

They could find no

Voice that issued from their

Withered lips.

But this -

This speaks of the celestial

Bond; the sacrosanct union

Of souls.A frenzied orgy that

Hides itself within

The deep contours of

Our heart.

Preserved and repeated, only in

Rapturous sighs.

Terminator

From cy's ipod:

Well, figuratively speaking it's: I'm going to bash your head off. But yeah, this works too.



Heck, I don't like you. At all. 

Of the Flame

Pale wood burns
An assiduous flame -

Yet so weak, so

Timid. In her flare of

Heat and light

Extinguishes, a part 

Of her. 

Soporific lulls of

Crackling sparks

Insinuate
Black-leaved flakes
Of yesterdays. 

Heart Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is undoubtedly, one who makes the wittiest remarks ever. In fact, he's so good at it I think he's even better than good old Shakespeare. (I still love you, though) He's also the author of the phenomenal, Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Anyway, a few of my favourites:

1. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

2. Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

3. A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

4. There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

5. I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

6. One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

7. If I love you, what business is it of yours?

8. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

9. Beware of her fair hair, for she excels all women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

10. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. 


P.S. P.N. I love you best though.

Penang Bridge Marathon

Umm, going for Penang Bridge Marathon tomorrow. 10 km run. Which is kind of like, from my house to Heng Ee High School.

Haven't been training as hard as I thought I would. But I promise I'll jog this evening. I think. Anyway, Barney did it without any training. And he won the race. 

Quotes from How I Met Your Mother:

Marshall: All that work I put in training for the marathon was a total waste.
Barney: Training for a marathon?
Marshall: What?
Barney: You don't train for a marathon, you just run it.

Robin: Barney, we're talking about 42 kilometers.

Barney: Here's how you run a marathon. Step 1: You start running. There is no step 2. 

He's adorable.

The Hollow Men

We are the hollow men 
We are the stuffed men 
Leaning together 
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! 
Our dried voices, when 
We whisper together 
Are quiet and meaningless 
As wind in dry grass 
Or rats' feet over broken glass 
In our dry cellar 
Shape without form, shade without colour, 
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.


~ T.S. Elliot


P.S. Thanks. It was superb while it lasted. Will miss you loads and loads. 

Happy Birthday, Armand

The trees may touch me once

And let me gleam into leaves

For all the incandescent love

I have in me.

Smear honey on me:

On my face, my mouth, my lids

To emolliate my

Feverish skin. 

I want the curd-pale moon

Along with her attendant stars

To pour us their light

Till we're dripping silver.

And I sometimes think that

With your bloody lips

We could paint the white lilies

A vibrant red.

Ode to Celeste

Of the inexorable,
Caddis-worms drown in their
Silk cases:

For all the
White Niagara pours
From her body

There is still
The effervescent bubbling
Of foam and...

Water. Rocks with fungal skin
Sat at the bottom
Silent and pending.