Fleshing out dreamy landscapes
Watercoloured cliches of the land we are in
We ogle at the beautiful people
Who walk past our cobble-stoned street
My mornings are spent there
Watching shopkeepers welcome the world in
Corporates bike their way to work
Our favourite book-keeper
Humming a foreign tune
We spend the cool nights at that veranda
Peranakan inpsired mosaic
A reminder perharps
Admiring lantern street lights which
Illuminate just enough to cast
Silhouettes of lovers
For our voyueristic souls
We play guessing games on how long
They've been together
The philandering half
Their unspoken rules
The ambiguity of silences
The smell of grilled treats
From street side stalls below
Fills the backdrop of our bellies
A thousand miles away
We can stay like this
Beyond the Stasis
April 2009
