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Sarah Ch'ng

Sarah Ch'ng

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Sarah Ch'ng
Sarah Ch'ng
Jan 13 · 1 min read

When I Was 18

This is what I said

i need to be perfect
every fibre of my being
a delicate curve
traced in time

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Sarah Ch'ng
Sarah Ch'ng
Dec 17, 2018 · 1 min read

However long it was, it was a long time.

What tense does one use to describe this warping of inner time? Where one exists in a constant state of “has happened” and “could be”s that are taking place right now?

For when two streams meet to become a river, it makes no sense to distinguish between past…

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Sarah Ch'ng
Sarah Ch'ng
Dec 11, 2018 · 1 min read

All things tend to chaos and disorder. This is entropy, a law of Nature; her most pervasive tenet. Perhaps this, too, explains my inevitable descent into madness.

Remove time and life unfolds in parentheses; the substance of an aside. Insufficient for the Main or ces mains. An unnecessity (me).

Sarah Ch'ng
Sarah Ch'ng
Dec 5, 2018 · 2 min read

Alongside, in parallel, with. Not quite synonymous with together. Quite the contrary, in fact. In parallel actually implies a degree of separation, pathways that will never meet. And yet I see you moving next to me, moving on that track alongside me: each of us encapsulated in our own little slice of existence; nonetheless connected. The world is…

Sarah Ch'ng
Sarah Ch'ng
Dec 2, 2018 · 1 min read

I am the Earth but You are Not the Sun

if i had to choose,

you would be a moon.

because of your quiet pull,

the way you make the tides flow

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