Two From Su

Anxiety

Like a fish out of water, breathing hard for fresh air
Like a fish on a pan over the fire, enveloped by hot air, suffocating
Like an insect hopping all over, to no direction
Like a butterfly, flying around in slow motion, for a holding place
Like a woodpecker, endlessly pecking to uncover the hiding secrets of life
Like a penguin, adapting life in water beyond vision, flightless
Like a human, with fear and worry, unavoidably trekking on the unpredictable path
To the unspoken fate

Cloud

If you want to conquer a waking volcano

You could send a cloud as a soothing messenger to calm it down
If you want to visit the Little Prince on his planet
You could ride a cloud as a fluffy spaceship to meet him
If you want to remind the sun of its routine descent in the western horizon
You could ask the sea gulls to pull over a colorful sheet of cloud, cooling the sun’s head
But if you want to own a cloud
You’ve got to let it go free

S.P. Ma - Dec. 2018