Monday, August 17, 2009

LOL

LOL
- Rita Putatunda

LOL
Stands for ‘laugh out loud’
Or it could even mean ‘lots of love’

I have lots of love
Dripping
From every pore, from each fingertip
From every eyelash
That hides a tear

I have lots of love
For you, you, and you
But you, you, and you
Seem blind, deaf, dumb
To every tear
That my eyelids hide
To every flower
That blooms in my heart

Sometimes I think
What’s the point anyway
Of all this lots of love
That I want to drip, drip, drip
From every pore, every fingertip, and eyelash
Since you’re so blind, deaf, dumb
And unending days turn into unending nights
And the skies drip, drip, drip, washing
Away the tears hidden in my eyelids
And my heart becomes a faded flower

It’s much better
To just laugh out loud
LOL

5 comments:

  1. this was written a year back - i often feel surprised at all the turmoil my words seem to exude, when i visit them after a while. the passion, the feeling have passed, died. but i'll keep it here anyway.

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  2. it's always that way when you come back to old work. "emotions recollected in tranquility" and all that. it's a bit like time travel, isn't it? you can almost feel what you felt then, recapture what was going on. ALMOST.

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  3. yeah, jia - it is a bit of that. but i seem to feel quite disconnected with stuff like this when i come back to it after a while.

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  4. Just another LOL to add from my side:
    Labour of Love

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