Jana Lee Wong Poems

i told you there was a god,
how he was watching over us all,
sitting to the left of the holy spirit
and to the right of his only son.
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when my hair was still gold as a sunflower’s petal,
i stood idle at the university’s gate,
to watch you pass, holding my books in your hands.
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you loved the most beautiful boy in town,
the most popular in the whole school
the one caught in a fire on his farm-
propane tank exploded unexpectedly
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i understand your fear of a thousand hounds,
as if telling your secret would make me stop loving
you, but honestly, you could have hollered the
devil stole your soul and I’d be sitting there listening,
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