you should fly
fragile bones
and your heart
beat
beat
beat
your gilded cage
cannot
hold you
the stars call your name
and the nebulas
are your skies
the Pleiades
your home
somewhere,
they meet, hand in hand,
the bridge of your kin
a red wedding string
joining generation
after generation
you should fly
fragile bones
and your heart
beat the song
of
starry hope
stay strong,
dear heart,
stay strong.
© 2017 by Joyce Chng
Joyce Chng lives in Singapore. Her fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Her alter-ego is J. Damask. Joyce’s pronouns are she/they.
Joyce Chng is Singaporean. She writes science fiction, YA and things in between. She can be found at @jolantru and A Wolf’s Tale.
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