Nocturne

Since I'm on holiday, I have the liberty of being nocturnal. And boy, I'm in my element. I guess a career in medicine, what with all the odd working hours and all, will suit me perfectly.

Here I share with you a poem I once studied in my Literature in English class. The title seems apt, or apt enough to describe my lifestyle.

nocturne

Muhammad Haji Salleh

tonight we have the sea

and sky to help us live.

the winds that blow from behind us

persuade us to go into the future,

tell us not to fear

tranquility or difference.

late tonight we borrow the music of nature

to mend the rhythm of our souls

newly broken by the pace of machines

i hold your hand

to marry my body to your lucidity.

in this dawn

we find a world

that understand us.

we string our experiences

as proof of our humanness.