pulse.


"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart is just going to cave in."
-Ricky Fitts, American Beauty

31.3.10

let go of some

chain breaker by Alistair Chong

some kind of liberation
finding in words we scream
some kind new feeling
it's called freedom
stopping care
and whatever weighs us down

30.3.10

at heart we all

age by Alistair Chong

sometimes my bones hurt
am i growing older
finding the nights colder
says the old man
sometimes i don't smile anymore
at simple things i see
sometimes i forget about glee
i once was a kid

29.3.10

enjoy

open your eyes by Alistair Chong

wasted too much
on the things we think
are so much more important
but taking it simply
just step back
enjoy little things in life

28.3.10

round the corner

pedestrians by Alistair Chong

pedestrian
on the street
turns the corner
we won't know
who it is
ever

27.3.10

how do you

getting there by Alistair Chong

the only way
you can get to the finish
is to run
the only way
you can find some land
is to swim
it's all you can do

26.3.10

issues in today

facing today by Alistair Chong

we write about it
talk about it
never doing a thing
working out the solution
to a problem in evolution
but we won't lift a hand

25.3.10

reverie

never day by Alistair Chong

listen
can you hear
it's those nights
you dream of being big
sold out houses
and packed out seats

24.3.10

proverbial

fader by Alistair Chong

what happened to passion
what happened to drive
the times i could stay up the night
just working with what i had
pen in hand
or was it for something else

23.3.10

growing old

maturity by Alistair Chong

i'd climb a tree
if i were three
or if i had less dignity
said he
a well to do man
much too grown up
to try that again
oh what we've lost

22.3.10

limited

this is earth by Alistair Chong

autumn leaves
blanketing this street
underneath our feet
crumbling into the ground we meet
what a memory
we should cherish
the simplest of things

21.3.10

upward

progressions by Alistair Chong

day by day
slowly catching up
steps on a pavement

20.3.10

some kind of therapy

stupidity by Alistair Chong

ten days at a time
seems the strangest
we barely hold a line
let alone this long

19.3.10

i guess they

culture by Alistair Chong

a lot of the time
my mind will wander
finding the same old words
shows how i never read
sometimes i'm just damn illiterate
uncultured and obnoxious
you'd hate me

18.3.10

lacking

we're alive by Alistair Chong

blurry eyes
burning bright
some lights just won't come together
out of focus
and breaking apart
i forget what it's like
to sleep

17.3.10

individuality

adject by Alistair Chong

keys are pressed
words are dressed
with the most unusual
ways and means we can find
just to be one of a kind
sometimes ridiculous

16.3.10

per week

two days by Alistair Chong

we love our time
timetable so free
no hours for a fee
i'm full of a way that i thought
was going to be
exactly how it is

15.3.10

deciphering

five too many by Alistair Chong

well, there were five
if only there were four
or maybe three
two or one would have been
more than enough for me

14.3.10

shortness

echoes of the sun by Alistair Chong

sometimes
i hear the echo of a summer
in the wind that blows by
in the leaves in the drive
wishing for me back

13.3.10

sometimes we miss

unsaid by Alistair Chong

every day
seems like
a lot of words to say
but we let them slide
hoping for a reply from the other side
just hoping

12.3.10

faders

enduring by Alistair Chong

we start
with fire in our feet
and wind behind our backs
but we often fold up our wings
and give in
much too easy

11.3.10

wasting

idle by Alistair Chong

99 minutes
is still a long time
so much could happen
we take for granted
the life we find
is not so broken

10.3.10

a percentage game

the things we do by Alistair Chong

time, it's on our hands
allow us to make amends
for all the things we never did
time, its in our heads
it's up to what we make of it

9.3.10

trigger

find it here by Alistair Chong

march oh march
the days of the past
walking down the avenue
listening to broken records
and to the memories under my feet

8.3.10

between fingers

gone through by Alistair Chong

the numbers differ so
in a very strange method
of finding what has passed us by
finding what has gone
slipping

6.3.10

tertiary

back then by Alistair Chong

somewhere in the haze
started a phase
the start of the end
of learning about the world

5.3.10

done in

small steps by Alistair Chong

partial parts
small portions
this is done in
there's only a matter of time
before it all catches up

4.3.10

cannot be

concentrations by Alistair Chong

there's always a time
to sit down
get to work
and move on
hard hard times

3.3.10

resolve

runner by Alistair Chong

it was time
to get up to time
fell behind
on the calendar
now running as hard as i can

2.3.10

to go

just a couple by Alistair Chong

one or two
lines
use to be the way to go
i guess
it's just the easier way out

1.3.10

it's time

born or dying by Alistair Chong

yeah it was a long time ago
sometimes autumn leaves
would be born
or did they die
was so hard to tell
back in the memories
that i don't see so well