If that's okay -
Text/Hua Ling
We turn on the TV every day
The screen is full of handsome guys and beauties
Advertisements for daily necessities are flying all over the sky
Why are there no novels and poems
Various star-making movements have come and gone
There are also marriage speed dating and funny shows
Entertainment gossip and lottery openings
We love it and enjoy it
When we indulge in the material world
Wandering on the edge of spirit and flesh
Under the spell of fame and fortune
Eager to climb the rolling wheels of money
We often dwell on what grows from this
Pleasure and pain in the trap of life and death
Struggling between alcohol, drugs, and disease
And forget the innocence of our childhood
At this time, you might as well lower your fanatical head
Take another look at your heart
Is there still blood lingering?
Is there still a dream?
What we are now pursuing
Has it made us change our mind?
What we're achieving now
Whether it has been spurned by us is not tolerated
We used to be an angular stone
Now it has slipped into the tide of the world
We are too shallow in our pursuit of vanity
But unfortunately lost in the highest level of spirituality
Read more novels? Read more poetry
Those scriptures will surely enlighten us
Communicate and confront these philosophers more
Our minds will not fall and be empty
It's not about going back in time
Life now is equally worth cherishing
But even if you linger for a moment in the old days
We will also have a surging mind, and our hearts will still be the same
If that's okay -
Whenever we turn on the TV
You can see the names of novels and poems
A good writer can also be as red and purple as a song star
Our lives are not much more fulfilling and interesting
Our choice is not closer to the essence of human nature
We're going to be a little bit more rational and a little more thoughtful
And not as impetuous, boring and boring as it is now
Author: Hua Ling, formerly known as Liang Chenghao, male, Han nationality, born in 1974, from Wolong District, Nanyang City, Henan Province. He is a contemporary Chinese avant-garde poet, a cutting-edge writer, and a columnist of the Reading Sleep Poetry Society. He is now a local village doctor. The first collection of poems, Love Songs and Lamentations, was successfully published in Henan Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House in April 2015, and won the silver medal of the third New Poet Award held by the Chinese Poetry Society in Beijing in June of that year, and the bronze medal of the second Red Sorghum PEN Club in Qingdao in August. The second collection of poems, "Beauty Snake", is also being planned for publication.
Image: Photo by Reading Sleep Poet.
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