The smoke from the cigarette make me cry,
Tears--running down my chin.
Looking at the silver screen
I see images of the Dawn Treader
Sailing into the dusk
In what is supposed to be a chaplin movie.

This problem's always been there--
The last to know

I guess.

The tears aren't really that bad.
They turn into stains on my shirt
And then are gone,
They'll never stay or be gone forever.

The stains reappear in different patterns.

Same substance, different essence

Just like the empty screen;
Images flickering
Universes gone and there in an instant.

Our world is a muffled scream.

12/03/2004

Author's Note: the dawn treader is a reference to a ship in C.S. Lewis' the voyage fo the dawn treader. it is a ship that sails to the end of the world in order to discover new island that belong to the kingdom of narnia.

Posted on 12/04/2004
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