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I’m too afraid to breathe—
It’s the memories of you that
Filled full within my lungs
I’d rather hold my breath till
Everything blank out in my head—
Boundless white
Before the air float up to sky
The dust sink to earth down
Down down to the chaos before universe —than to exhale you
Silence
Soundless of the air
Only the beating of the heart and drum
The drum before everything has ever been Loud, such to quiver my world but
No sound to neighbour galaxies
Trillion streams of energy at war
Inside me
Sparkles lit up electric flow through My capillaries
Five myriads ice, five myriads fire
Like countless stars birthing and dying At the same exact eternality
They say that
I have fallen for you
It’s never just you…
‘tis the thousand mild light—delicate romance —Deflected my thoughts
And turned my eyes into ponds
One for a wobbly you
One for the moon
About the Author: Daisy Xu is an 18-year-old high school senior currently studying in Shanghai, China, who is (possibly) going to major in Art History and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is immensely passionate about literature, especially poetry and Shakespeare. She started writing poems in the summer of 2020 and this is her very first publication. She likes to document the fleeting inspirations in life with poetry and experiment with words.
