Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 149

( Do you ever know that
never
In you is the forgotten, the old cities, the clocks starting at fifty, the dreams that this new story could
be just as dreamy, that it isn’t mere mortality and the mediocrity of ‘pain with age’ and caretakers and
windows
too small to honor the view of a city still standing and breathlessness and the dread of abruptness and
the
fear of losing you.
you are still
yourself )
Do you ever know
if this will be forever? Have you remembered?
never.