Paradise Lost
hidoko Matsumoto/v0id/Marilyn Chua
Sept 2002

In half-fever short of frenzy,
reminiscence of a distant place
truer and colder, that which enshrouds
with naught harsh light, soft and gentle
All that which shone down in rain
was gentle like the overhead sky.

That place! Deep nostalgia of it brings 
A longing so deep, nothing hateful
Longing, as longing takes flight
Free of frivolous voices of adolescents
Who in their naivity prove evil to the core
A place, so silent and soft
that implies deep meditation
and inspires the soul.

Paradise lost! It seems.
Tragic! But how thoughts inspire!
It brings a will to live, to struggle
A lost child's life continues 
as it lives in search of this
Paradise Lost.

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