love in red By William Zhuang Is it love To take a bullet for someone To stand in front of metal And let it sink into flesh Life into death As effortless as leaping dolphins Indifferent as love Eternally shifting, only to wilt
When you fall back Do you hear the cries They have come to find you Trembling through like water When you lose all else Stories, images, songs Are the voices What you hold onto? Are they what You bring along? And blood You were once bathed in it The moment your eyes Opened and touched All of this world That red in you Flowing, running cold When it comes back Through flesh and vessels To reach the paleness Of skin in burgundy blurs Is it lovely Is it love?
20 TUFTS OBSERVER NOVEMBER 22, 2021
DESIGN BY TARA STECKLER, ART BY CHEYANNE ATOLE
