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A transparent distortion

 

Lucid dreams, awakening me from a dream within dream

Your love, vanishes in a flowing stream

And I am, void of love, soulless and surreal

 

Vaguely I remember, your silhouette emerging from a rippled surface

And some subtle strangeness reflecting on the mirror

And I am, imbued, fascinated, desired

 

Being inspired, imaginative and insane

Indeed opium-obsessed

I wander, under your hypnosis

 

I can never be dissolved

Your love’s dreary, and you, fathomless

I shall not decay

However, ceaselessly I perish, in fragments of your shapeless transparency

 

Hopes scatter

Dreams gather

I am standing by a wishing well

Without your echoing 

 

Stop possess me

Stop distort me

I’m lost

I’m drown

 

Ever entreating a thrilling romance

Indulging such breathless oppression

You’re a warp in my purity, with upcoming illusory visions

Tis an end to deceive as I no longer believe

 

Your trail is, intangibly, invisibly, in doubt

Tails and heads are meant to be philic and phobic

You’re the colourless fluid that’s going everywhere in me

I dive, into you, it’s nothing but a choice

 

In sweetness I submerge in conscious

I shall settle in you, for ever

Endlessly immerse in love

To flow in you

And to float breathlessly

 

Seven seconds of memory

Is this somewhere I belong? Half in you, half in air

I hesitate, whether to flow or to float, or to be forgotten

I cannot whisper but muttered: “Release me, aquaman. ”

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