Looking Out The Window With A Smile

I've had just enough time...   to look out the window into the world with a sad smile

The clown looking out the window into the world in historic city of Malacca

Looking out the window

Into the world

With empty eyes and a smile

The small kid runs, laugh

And pointed

He likes it best on hot afternoons

When only stray dogs

Roam the silent street

On cloudless night when pebbles

Reflects the moon’s silvery lights

On rainy days when heaven’s tears

Spear the lonesome Earth

Always with the same smile

The same empty eyes

Looking out the window

Into the world from behind bars

I was wandering through the street of one of my favorite city. The historical city of Malacca where there always new discoveries to be made. At a corner building of the Ironsmith Street “Jalan Tukang Besi” away from the maddening crowd, I saw a Chinese Clown in a T-shirt looking eerily out a window of the brightly painted orange building. Its fathomless eyes unreadable and its sardonic smile uninterpretable. What are its thoughts to be looking out the window every day? I tried to imagine but it is not easy to be a clown with sad eyes and an uneasy smile.

You Will Never Know What It Is Like To Be Me

I've had just enough time to...   try to feel what it is like to be someone I'm not

Taken while strolling through the street of Munich

I stood apart from the crowd

You won’t understand the feelings

You have not been there

But you thought you did

I took those well meaning sympathies

For what they are – well meaning

But don’t try to tell me you understand

It only pained me though I smiled

If you are three feet tall

Have a white face, pointed nose

And wear a tall red cap

Then tell me –

You know what it is like to be me

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Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy)