Echoed beyond where I lodge my lamentations

I memorize the lyrics where I hide

And seek the console of sighs and sorrows

I dare not to heed the lullaby

For I never heard in the cradle

When my bare feet was still soft

But now I travelled a long, dusty road

To where I owned and kept

A long, unrhymed song away from home. 

I touched my fingers that could count

The every drop that pours when it rains

Then let my tears evaporate until it’s gone

And when the arch after storm appears

I erase the colors and paint the nightmares

I shout and cry the humming

Of lightnings and thunderstorms

To where I owned and kept

A long, unrhymed song away from home. 

I sail on the sea without turning back

Then drowned my heart in solitude

Like the sun swallowed by the ocean before twilight

Without seeing the dawn after

I am a bottle of wine, emptied

Floating in the deep and silent waters

I vomit and weep to drain my loneliness

To where I owned and kept

A long, unrhymed song away from home.

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