A Great Paradox

If you want to feel one with someone
Just respect her difference from you.

When you are with someone
So different from you,
Simply enjoy being with her.
You'll soon find yourself
In a wonderful treasure hunt.

If you want to close the gap
Just respect the gap
Because that's what the gap wants.
After the gap knows about your respect
It can't help itself from walking toward you.

If you want to feel one with someone
Just respect the difference
Because respect is what all of us want.

That's Really Enough...

You don't always have to own what you love.
-- Lin Xi 林夕(a Hong Kong lyricist)

Owning will soon create the fear of loss.
So even though I know that you'll never be mine
I am not disappointed.
Because I don't own you
Your beauty and grace is always with me.

I always keep seeing you dance free,
My dear Artemis...

I feel I'm very lucky to share at least
This earth with you.
That's really enough...

I like Lin Xi's name. I've only recently found why he uses the mainland Chinese Pin Yin romanisation for his name, even though it is extremely rare for a Hong Konger to write his name in Pin Yin. Pin Yin is a key to decode his rather mysterious name...

If 林 (Lin) is written above 夕 (Xi), it'll make 梦 (meng), a simplified Chinese character (which is rarely used in Hong Kong) that means "dream." So he's encoded a dream in his name.

When You Want a Hope...

McDull

When you want a hope,
You already have a hope.
We often feel desperate
Simply because we are unaware
Of what we've already got.

So step back and look around.
We at least have a hope that
Can dig out our hidden resources.

This has been inspired by a McDull maxim that I saw a few years ago. I love his simple wisdom with quiet determination just like most Hong Kongers...

Rest in Peace, Billy

Billy Sunday 1862-1935

Being against,
Kicking,
Fighting sin,
You've probably won a great deal of friends
But I am sure you've also made a pile of enemies.

Butting,
Biting,
Gumming sin,
You've shown helluvalot courage as a warrior
But I can very clearly feel the drive of fear.

As long as you've got a boot,
As long as you've got a fist,
As long as you've got a head,
As long as you've got a tooth,
Even after you are without all of above,
You are willing live in the perpetual battleground,
Focusing the ugly side of this world.

Constantly being against sin,
Can you see the beauty in the human race?
Always kicking sin,
You are actually kicking the very creation of
The Almighty God, your love.

You can end the battle against sin
Only if you can see an angel in everyone.
Only if you see an angel in everyone,
You'll find yourself only kicking the wind.

So rest in peace, Billy.
I hope you can now see the brighter side of this world.

Treat a sinner like Jesus. You'll see the devil running away...

A Burning Rocking Chair

I wish a worry would get you nowhere.
But I know a worry is so powerful that
It can get you to a hell of the size of your choice.

Sitting on the burning rocking chair of worry,
You'll soon find yourself burning in invisible fire.
Your mind is fixed with what you fear the most
And you know you can live in a hell
Even before you do something bad and die.

You can go to a personal hell
Whenever you are caught in a worry.

But a hope can take you to the heaven
Even before you do good things and die.

The Hell can be within you
So can the Kingdom of God.

The Director's Cut

The world has actually been created by you.
It's hard to believe but it's true.
Even when you are held in your lover's arms
The sensations, sights and sounds you feel
Are yours only.

You are seeing and feeling the world
That your mind has created.

The world perhaps actually exists around you.
But no one else sees it the same way.
You see the world with your camera and your scripts,
Shooting your own movie of life.

So shoot it from the best angle with the best script
That you can fully be satisfied.

Give yourself the director's cut you like the best.
Your beloved are happier to share your world
If it's good enough to make yourself happy.