Asian American Hearts

The heart of the women warrior will always beat on. We are the heirs of a dual legacy, and the promise of the future. The stories of our lives and the poetry of our dreams shall be told for all to feel. We are a part of a movement we never chose, but forever will be a part- The Asian American Woman


disorder.

it's a shame that we don't love
and i'm sorry we couldn't love,
but maybe it was temperature
or atoms, or molecules,
or sun rays or dust clouds,
or stratosphere and hemisphere,
or atmosphere of iron and stone
or maybe the way my heart pumps
or the way my wounds bleed.
maybe you heard thunder and i saw lightning
but neither one of us thought there'd be storm.
maybe we were moving into darkness
or maybe it was the light running away from us
but either way, from rust to dust and burn to flame,
everything lives to see its end.
and bridges burn and stars shoot
and time comes and goes and smiles
as it passes by and shakes your hand,
and one time it paused long enough to tell me
that everything lives to see its end.
and it's a damn shame that we don't love,
and i'm sorry that we couldn't love,
but maybe our stream was only water
or our oceans just a sea.
maybe your time in eden
was only my christmas eve.
and alphabets are organized, numerals numerized,
but me, i am disorder, so it's been said,
and us, just like all memories, we are glamourized.
and it's a shame that we don't love or won't love,
and i'm terribly sorry that we couldn't,
but seasons come and time whispers from within my head
and where i once felt heat, i feel the cold of dead.
it's a damn shame we won't love
and i'm really sorry that we couldn't,
but with the flood follows the drought
and if we were not drowned
soon we would have found ourselves burned,
and i really wish we could love
and i'm terribly sorry we don't,
but it seems to me a subtle reminder
that everything lives just long enough to see its end.

glenda
alpha gamma aka speed