About the Author
At the first cutting light of August, many years ago, the world got the first glimpse of the entity known henceforth as
Leon Yip. It decided to douse the aforesaid with sunshine, sweets, and loads of love.
Legend has it, so convicting were his words, that upon his request, the world agreed to revolve around him, forever, and ever, and ever.
Posted on: Thursday, January 04, 2007
Posted at: 9:39 PM
TwoSilence feels the air
Unlike before
Memories of two rivers flowing together
Accompanied by each other's gushings
Depositing sediments into each other's banks
Strengthening the platfor which forms a bridge between them
Enter a single seed
Dispersed by the wild winds
Right onto the fertile young bridge
Initially strengthening and holding the earth together
Over time the bridge becomes solid
But the new tree stands in between the two rivers
Allowing only little streams to trickle to and fro
Since the intrusion of the majestic tree
Silence feels the air
A seed was blown
The wild wind its carrier
Finding it a good home
So ideal a home it finds
On the converged banks of two young rivers
Where the newly formed earth is more fertile than others
Settling down
The fertile earth aids the new seed like a father to his newborn
Feeding and supporting it
Over time
They depend on each other
The bank growing from sediments form the two rivers
But blocking any hope the two rivers once dreamt of
Of converging as one
And flowing into the vast ocean as one
Until the tree mercifully goes away from the harshness of time
There will be two rivers
Two paths
Two hearts.
-Leon Yip
