Jia-Li Yang (aka Cassa Bassa)

Safety Or Anxiety

It’s getting harder
to murder someone
and get away with it
Citizens feel safer

It’s impossible
to keep any secrets
while the tech giants
are watching

The anxiety
of being stalked
is real

The Chapel

She wore a black dress
to his funeral
Outside the chapel
the wind shook the pear blossoms
covering her hair and back
She walked that walk again
wearing a wedding veil of white petals
Pure and eternal
She saw her groom again
still and peaceful

Masterpiece

The land meets the sky
blue on green
The ocean meets the sky
blue on blue

The sun cuts himself
bleeds liquid gold
The palette is ready
for a masterpiece

You Made Me A Better Writer

If we are living the fairytale
I know
I would stop writing

This feeling of lack
this sense of tragedy
keep me digging deeper
into the human condition

For that
you have made me a better writer

Give No Reason

The sun gives no reason to shine
The rain gives no reason to nourish
Children give no reason to laugh
Kitten gives no reason to be cute
We give no reason to love

Being who we are
is enough
Philosophical debate
is such a waste of time
Why don’t we just be
and be happy
that we are
who we are

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China-born Australian writer Jia-Li Yang (aka Cassa Bassa) loves people and writing. She authored a collection of micro stories The Scars We Don’t See; poetry anthologies published by The Short of It, Raw Earth Ink, Prolific Pulse Press, EIF, Literary Revelations. Cassa blogs at https://flickerofthoughts.com. She was first featured in 2022. You can find her previous work HERE.