another side

Vienna Teng - In Another Life

LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang

@ www.lrcgc.com @

in another life

you and I worked West Virginia coal mines

side by side

collecting the black dust like sin

the day the main shaft caved in

I caught your eye

as the lantern light guttered out

and the afterdamp swallowed us slowly

I gripped your hand

and caught a glance of the next time 'round

you and I were Red Guards in training

we marched on Tiananmen

turned our own parents in for hoarding rice

and in the Great Leap forward

we crawled on our bellies and died

a blood orange sky

gave a cry of next time 'round

I was married at thirteen

you were killed at twenty-one

on a minor battlefield

I was buried beside my second stillborn child

my last thought it seemed

a fever dream

now we sink into a summer afternoon

Central Park in June

marveling at the bounty our days contain

and we feel it like the shiver

of a passing train

that other life

deep underground

you and I

we are the next time 'round

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