Jealouosy, the Apparition

[顏雪花Catherine Yen]

(Circus and Clown, painted by Catherine Yen 2002)

(Collected by Erich Kunzel, ex-Conductor of Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)

The apparition, a Jealousy

An apparition infused in the vein of blood

Overflowed and immersed bit and byte

Moment and second

Down to the foul body

It eats your throat

Bites your tongue

Swallows the eyes

Creeping like a heretical thing

Erodes your brains

Smashes your reason

Fermented like a dark wave

Clothed with sin

Drown you in lust

Lives that lie

An iron hollow of doubtful world

On them the fire got hold, stir abruptly

Fickle and eccentric

With flesh and blood, it chained me for a chain

Cleaved to me, clinging as a fire to cling

Covered with love as a covering tree

The feeling ever shed in a grievous grave

Shame consumed one shameless

Neither do I kneel nor adore you

Enlighten life as the naming of a name

Jealousy, the apparition