Tonight the World Sleeps with Me
Laijon Liu 20200326Tonight the world sleeps with me, feels
that shock, trapped, isolation and uncertainty
I show everyone how to hold the breath
because the air is foul since 1975
a forager been shot and pushed into the river
that time of torrential and freaking cold
mask the world puts on, used to be that grin
self-reflect of the self identity of obscure
wild taste of pain, of animal, cheers the beast
that ignorance that savagery that brush off
tonight the world reflects, how broke we are
nothing much left that we should never brag
that sense of plenty of hope comes in a bowl
we are so brave, make our existence's check
everyone's make-shift helter-skelter skedaddle
that thrill of barely hanging on, so survived
hearing the bullshit of bullshit on radio and tv
statues melt like ice cream cones in my hands
music passes thru the skyscrapers that silent hum
an alien saucer hovering over the empty cities
strange architecture of stones, steel and glass
devoured the rats, roaches and two-leg builders
that immense volume of analog information -poof
break down, back to their primitive forms
tonight, the world is so far, it's right by my side
tonight, the world so close to me, finally
we together panting, try to draw every breath.
