Poems
Tumbling down
The walls cave in tight
The bricks shift their place
In one sudden gaze
The day has changed to night,
The stars shimmer in the sky
The ground shimmys to the right
All that’s in front of me
dazzles in my sight
My vision breaks away
and my world flees to decay
My arm becomes weak
And I can’t source what words to say
This pain in my brain
Leaves me in a unfamiliar place
Heavy leg and heavy arms and
a one-sided droopy face
I cry for a yesterday
Where this was not the case
I move my mouth
but what comes out
is not the intended sound
My eyes well up with tears
As I lay in bed
flared up in fears
From seeing my familiar world
fade into the unfound
And everything around me
comes tumbling down.
Angela Yap Chung
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