To Sleep

And now as I prepare to surrender to rest,


The shoots of dreams start to show,


The promise of color,


The assurance of wonder,


The hint of the other world.

Or simply a white lie, tempting nonetheless...

And like a painter ready with a view in sight

and an image in mind,


I sort my palette of thoughts

as my eyelids lay the first strokes

on the void of this black canvas of Sleep.

N.

(Footnote: I don't know why I put that in the form of a poem :)

Slack

Downside of staying ahead of your years is that when the years catch up, which they do anyway, you've already exhausted the charm for the experiences they're supposed to bring with them. They are not "new" to you anymore. And you don't have anything else to look forward to because for you that'll also be "old". Some kind of a dead end...

Father and Son

This mere one day gap between these two birthdays is a symbol of 'closeness' between these two people. However, this slight gap can also be a symbol of the 'thin line' which seems enough to put them on opposite sides. But then, they won't quarrel or go to war. Turns out the thin line is a mirror and they both see themselves in each other.