Poetry by Cathy Nguyen

Edited by Jordan Magee

If tragedy must follow the two of us

Between every breath we take as one, Let Tragedy trail us in tandem, 

Always looming, but left to linger… Watch as I fall for you, my single truth, 

Time 

after time 

Again then 

again. 

Consume me in parts and whole,

Like the fool I’ll choose to be. 

If what they say is true (inevitably so) Then I shall follow you, dearest one,

As faithfully as that lonesome sorrow does In every (and all) mortal vessels I possess;

Let Tragedy witness this fatal devotion With time, it too may yearn in hush, Forlorn

for us;

For once 

In all of its eternity, 

falling for a dream.