Yiling Ding Poems

It's amazing how
one feeling from the past
can become such
an integral part of you:
...

Her body is the
Unexplored Temple,
hidden in the
sanctity of trees.
...

I'm scared to sleep at night.
More than once,
you've appeared in my dreams.
(Yesterday night,
...

In my mind
I am drawing scars
on my arms.
With a silver scimitar
...

It is difficult to breathe,
the air is too thick
with the heady smog of
fearful anticipation.
...

She is running, running
Forever running
in an endless landscape.
The bleached white sands
...

The birds around me
are relishing in their freedom.
They are joyous
in their free light
...

I've long forgotten
the world before perfection
was defined.
The world when all was good
...

I stand in the shadow of giants
and I measure my height against them.
I am constantly looking for the edge of the sky
that I might find hidden in a sliver of
...

Someone get me out of this spiraling stairwell
Up or down I can't see the light
Everywhere there's nothing but
continuing steps
...