Saturday, February 14, 2009

A LaDy bY ThE LaMp PoSt…

There she was…

Standing by the lamp post

- Alone, Aloof

- with no one else besides her

- except for the fleeting, unfamiliar faces

of total strangers in the dark.

There she was…

standing by the lamp post

-WAITING-

for her mum to pick her up

-WAITING-

if miracle would happen

and she found herself

- safely and warmly tucked at home.

And all the while

she kept thinking, kept remembering

the good, old days when they were learning

of ANOTHER lady by the lamp post.

She cant help but smile to herself

-merely a smirk-

a sinister symbol of witty satire

against the long-forgotten POEM

once taught so diligently by a lecturer

and yet learnt so matter-of-factly by the students.

A Lady by the Lamp Post

-looking on the passer-cars

-depending on the dim, yellowish light that shines down upon her

-to be able to see her mum’s car coming

-to illuminate herself bright enough for her mum to see

-and not miss her, no more, not once more, not any more.

a product of a corrupt education system

-she found herself writing a parody

-to a poem she once was so familiar with

and yet has become an anonymous one now.

What an IRONY life is….

September 9th, 2008 at 9:40 am

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