I feel the warmth of the sun on my skin,

Every time I leave home,

I feel the gentle breeze caressing my hair,

Each time I leave for work,

Yet, the distant morning don’t feel the same anymore,

For things are no longer the way they used to be.


Family & friends are no longer faces I see every day,

Neighbours are no longer people I meet & greet,

And colleagues have now become occasional struggles,

What’s more?

The outbreak has truly destroyed our livelihoods,

Leaving us with no

We squander our health in our pursuit of wealth,

We starve and overwork ourselves,

In hopes, it all leads to a better life,

Only for us to splurge our newfound wealth,

To seek the health we once had.

Loneliness

My constant companion

A friend I befriended from my childhood

That sticks with me through thick and thin

No matter where I go

Who I am with

It never let goes off me


Loneliness

A core memory

I’ve relived a countless times

That was responsible for the tears I’ve shed

No matter how many tears

How many hours of therapy

It still hurts


Loneliness

An inevitable emotion

I have stopped running away from

And instead embraced

Because no matter how painful i

Overthinking kills

I am very aware of it,

Yet I still indulge myself in it,

Every bit of it.

Sometimes so caught up in it, I lose my breath

But then I remind myself

That overthinking brings no benefits,

Only more troubles,

Because that is the art of overthinking.

Often, we spend our time

Looking for something

To fill the void within us,

And we turn a blind eye

To what really matters,

But we fail to realize that

What we really needed

Was right there all along.

It first saw you when you were young,

The moment it laid eyes on you,

You felt a great sense of comfort,

That you had never felt before,

Although its aura gave you a sense of danger,

You were compelled by the vision it entailed.


Miraculously so, you were willing to submit your devotion to it,

But little did you know, what was ahead of you

Nothing could prepare your young mind,

For the impediment, it had designed for you,

The hours of self-doubt, rejections and loneliness.