traded your worth for these scars, for your only company.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

thanks to stella the scholar.

{ 3:21 am }

Sunday, February 15, 2009

the linens in the breeze just can't dry
the chickens chuckling in the pantry won't understand why
deep down inside a chasm a candle cries.

{ 4:32 am }

Sunday, February 08, 2009

SONG : LOVE

Though you send me away
to think my self free
to take what you give
without thought, without terror,
I learn that to be near you
is to understand our error
in thinking freedom comes through
breaking ties while we live.

Teach me to be free
as earth, sky and sea,
let them make me a place
to come back to your care.
Death will not turn
me away if i learn
to look into the human face
to find you there.

lee tzu pheng

{ 4:01 am }

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Revisioning

Five years, my friend, since I overheard

your tears because the universe was silent.

I never went as far as you, not pushed

to desolation’s reaches, but the nights

were almost as cold. From the past

a memory of beginnings made me watchful;

taking strange paths under indifferent skies

I longed to recognize the rare, distinctive

kindling in bone—its warmth was human.

If this was what I sought, affirmation,

of life so very nearly lost, it made

the terror of your anguish beautiful;

the chill of a silent God a heavenly fire.

Suffering burns us clean. This baptism we share,

though what in us is deepest seems the hardest

to surrender. And see now here, despite time’s

ruthlessness, love reduced to ash may feed new roots.

I live by faith now, as you do, discerning

in solitary spaces the freeing of the soul.

We listen still for voices, pay them heed,

but fashion from their words our own responses.

Revisioning is more than finding trails;

it is to move through dead ends to horizons.

it is to see new signs within old lands,

the ancient furrows break like children’s smiles.

Lee Tzu Pheng

{ 2:31 am }