Ripples

Published on November 3, 2025by Le Mai Tan Dat

What is a ripple?

Is it a choreography

of water molecules on the surface of the sea?

Or a fall of a ball,

which bounces off the floor and then runs?

Is it a visage

of a lake in the desert?

Or an afterimage

of a misunderstanding?

Perhaps it's a yearning

for someone one is not meant to reach.

Or is it a message left unsent?

November, 2025, Singapore.

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