No Sleep

by GENNY LIM

The past is folded into a dream

Love comes like this

in the warm current of night

with a tenderness that anchors

the weight of memory

into a shadow of

eternal longing

We leave everything

to chance

The beauty of our youth

gone in a sigh

This we know and

because it’s so

we love even harder with

ardent kisses and the

throb of our furious hearts

beat like wings against

the cage of night