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.
