Knowing when to hold
Knowing when to go
The art of timing
Be true to your feelings
Knowing what to do
Knowing who to trust
I spin and leap
I focus on love
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Happiness and sadness
Surprises and shocks
Step back and observe
Breathe in, breathe out
People and incidents
Places and changes
Slow down and smile
Pause before the next mile
Serenity holds
Calmness wins
Regimen the new style
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Now I smile wider
Now I bounce higher
He kisses my forehead
My worries soothed
He’s my cup of tea
He warms my soul
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Cold rain
Icy blades
Piercing
Cutting
Weight on shoulders
Needles through heart
How much more can I handle
No more energy even to hate
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I fall for him every day
His smile, his eyes
His patience, a real man
I fall in love again and again
With him every day
Him, my favourite gent
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He emerged from darkness
Dirt, gloom, melancholy
He came forth in midst of chaos
Mud, murk, desolation
A hand reached out from the rain
An arm stretched around my waist
Upward
To where oxygen was
Forward
To where hopes lay
He lifted me from the dark
Showing me the sunny side every day
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Spring sadness
Heart drunk in spring sadness
Speechless
I’ve left myself speechless
Chilly evening rain
Shaky iced vodka
Sweet dreams or nightmares
A picture without colour
A blossom too old
An ice cube that’s not cold
Million words behind her grim smile
Perhaps her confessions, perhaps her rejections
Rock, rock, rocking
Sway, sway, swaying
But her scent never fades
How can I ever escape
Translation of Jacky Cheung’s Li Xiang-lan
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