So close ... yet so far

[ယုဇနေမာင္]

So close ... yet so far

Listening to the radio playing its sad love songs,
Listening to my heart playing its sour bitter tunes,
My mood subsides as the sun sets
My soul sinks as the clock strikes twelve.

Listening to the fireworks crackle,
Only to witness it through broadband Internet,
Opening season greetings one after another,
Only to receive them through YahooMail.com

Shrieks of laughter in the background,
The TV turned on maybe a little too loud,
Little children running with fireworks in hand,
Others sitting round playing cards under the fan.

My eyes turned back to the TV programme,
Suddenly a red packet replaced its frame,
I looked up with glee in my eyes,
Yet again another ang pow is mine ...

I open my eyes,
only to find myself staring at the ceiling above,
I close my eyes again,
Only to find myself playing back the events of the past.

So close these memories in my mind,
Yet so far they are from reality,
So happy to be in those present moments,
Yet so sad to replay past memories.

Listening to my fingers tapping on the PC keyboard,
How they long to be touching that face,
Feeling my head lie against a stone cold wall,
How it longs to rest on that shoulder.

If my legs could run a thousand miles,
If I had wings to fly,
If my heart could travel as swift as broadband,
If only I had just one wish.

I would hear fireworks crackling behind,
I would smell sweet sticky cake in the air,
I would feel the warmth of his arms around mine,
I would see those heart-melting features once again.

So close in my heart,
Yet so far from my reach,
So fast it's New Year once again,
Yet so long till we meet again.

Happy New Year,
To you,
and to all those with loved ones,
So close ... yet so far.

[bamaung]

အဓိပါယ္မျပန္တတ္ျပန္တတ္နဲ ့ဖတ္ျကည့္ေတာ့
ေကာင္းပါတယ္
ဆက္ေရးေနာ္
မိန္းကေလး
ဘေမာင္ကဒီဘေလာ့မွဴိးေတြျကိုက္တယ္

[bamaung]