Ripples

Published on November 3, 2025by Le Mai Tan Dat

What is a ripple?
Is it a choreography
of water molecules on the surface of the sea?
Or a fall of a ball,
which bounces off the floor and then runs?
Is it a visage
of a lake in the desert?
Or an afterimage
of a misunderstanding?
Perhaps it's a yearning
for someone one is not meant to reach.
Or is it a message left unsent?

November, 2025, Singapore.

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