that moment

When the doctor forced open my eyes
Luwig van didn't play in my shuffle
Philip glass' the hours was played instead

i thought my loved ones would cross my mind when the laser beam started to flow
but Virginia Woolf appeared instead

Clarissa's voice murmured,
"That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other."
Clarissa became Mrs. Dalloway
But women nowadays can remain to be Clarissa
no?
My mom introduces herslef to strangers as Miss Wong...

I thought of my mom
and her mom
we stay alive for each other
until we no longer can

My grandmother was a second wife
I always thought i am your second
never the first in your life
and you can never love me like you loved her

but it is fine for me
being second
couldnt help because i am in love with you