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漫步走沙滩
时空不间断
踏出细旅脚印
各自的旅程
原始的童真
奔跑穿越成网
那重叠的脚印
叙述一段你我的迈进
走散了也如此宁静
看似如丝绸
也是互叠交叉缠绵
看着以往的脚印
勾起昔日苦甜
在无边无境的沙步海
谁的记忆可依赖
离去的步伐
何时敢问你好吗
自古存在的沙滩
载着千思万虑的波浪
在遥远的时空
被水风抹淡
眼前看似丝绵的沙滩
是否也埋了前人的遗忘
— 04/10/19

Commentary: Our paths along time, is like our footprint on beach – every person lays down his own track. Our crossing paths, like crisscrossing footprint forming a net. Sometimes friends just quietly left us onto their own path, and it is only down the road that we realized that we had lost them. Even the finest silk cloth is made up of weaves. Looking back at all these stacked prints, what are left are just memories and often, we are hard-pressed to identify who walked with who. To those whom left, when will there be courage and opportunity to ask, “how are you?” Further and further back into time, our shared footprints got eroded by the wind and waves. What is finally left is another silken beach, just like the untouched beach ahead of me. However, is ahead also a burial of forgotten memories?

I wrote this poem while thinking some of my old friends whom turned into acquaintances and eventually, strangers. Some of them, whom I was once close with, I do not even remember their names nor faces. There is no way of contacting them, and even if there is, do I even have the courage to do that? Or such memories should just be let go?