Then True Love Comes
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THE FLOW
- • A Lone Star
- • A Chinese Grandmother Raps
- • My Village Playground
- • Supper In Petaling Street
- • She Ruled But Did Not Conquer
- • You Are Second Choice
Chapter 1 My Little World The heroine lives in her ordinary world, never venturing far but always wishing for the faraway land.
- • Inspiration From A Korean Poet
- • Matahari
- • Paint The Magic
- • Friday Night With Robbie Williams
- • The Echo From My Past
- • To Be Courage
Chapter 2 Adventure Is Calling Suddenly, the opportunity flashes before her and she could not control her heart from beating its wild fantasies.
- • Yuan Fen
- • This Is Enigma
- • The Disease Of Negativity
- • In Your Most Vulnerable State Of Mind
- • Pledge of The Victim Mentality
- • Snakes Of Fear
Chapter 3 Fear Strikes As he offers his hand, she quickly turns away, her heart racing, unable to deal with the thought that he might leave her and she certainly was not going to fall for him.
- • I Am A Master of Disbelief
- • Unhappy Again Again Again
- • Behind The Black Bars
- • Where The Road Bends And Curiosity Meets
Chapter 4 The Sage Appears The universe must have heard her unceasing prayers.
- • My Closet Hides
- • The Mystic
- • You Creepy Little Cockroach
- • The Cold Wind Does Blow
- • I Refuse To Accept
- • Hanging Up My Sword
Chapter 5 The Adventure Begins She books her ticket, leaves a note on the table, and starts off into the wild frontier with nervous excitement.
- • Wedding Impromptu
- • The Swan On The Lake
- • At My Balcony
- • Ask And It Is Given
- • Then True Love Comes
- • The Sky Is Calling
Chapter 6 Return With The Elixir As she seizes the sword, overjoyed at overcoming the barrage of obstacles in the long and arduous journey, she opens the box to find the elixir with her name on it.
Chapter 1 My Little World The heroine lives in her ordinary world, never venturing far but always wishing for the faraway land.
A LONE STAR
She’s just a quiet girl in a noisy room, Sitting by herself, talking to the moon, She’s nineteen, going through her teens, The kind of girl boys never been.
She remembers her heart beating fast and hard, Years ago as she tears his card, Now the boy next door is long gone, She peers between clotheslines looking for one.
This is the girl that boys do not see, Sun-darkened skin and face of acne, She’s not the girl the softball coach dates, Nobody told her romance will be late.
She tells God that she will be happy, If she had a boyfriend she could one day marry, She doesn’t know each will break her heart, Maybe she’s born with a lone star in her chart.
A CHINESE GRANDMOTHER RAPS
Unlike your soft and springy bed, My body knew only the hardness of a board, And that is why I still can sleep On the thinnest mattress on the parquet floor. In our village Up in the mountains, I lived in a house made from earth, And slept under a roof made of grass. You pull your face long when I holler for you, When I was your age, I was climbing the hills, Where animals bellow and tigers roar, To gather wood for Mother to sell.
At fourteen, by the Chinese calendar, Mother passed, and Father sent for us – Your Grand Aunt and I to join him and Brother. (She walked slowly, her feet were bound, Her shoes were patterned, embroidered cloth, But her toes were deformed and stuck together. Being ten years younger, I Escaped that ugly custom of vanity.)
We set sail on a wooden ship, Peasants seeking work to earn some money, To Malaya, they call the South Seas, Where Father says, “Plenty of coconut trees, No need for thick and padded coats, As the weather here is never cold! Tin mines and plantations and busy streets We have set up shop for our family.”
I washed clothes for Ma’am When the red-haired ruled. When Japanese soldiers came, We ate just tapioca and sweet potatoes. I mixed and carried earth with water, Heavy pails of stones and cement, Back and fro, one building to another, Under the sun every day, Consider now, you have a good life Living in your house with the painted walls, Your clothes are now washed by machines, You can have hot food whenever you want!
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About the Book
This life is a self-experiment. Isn’t it?
Trial and error.
But normally trial and error is preceded by deciding on objectives or outcomes that we can expect. What is the end in mind? Is having an ending important? Or is life just a hit and run?
Each one of us is in this world from inside a human body. We are observing, experiencing, thinking, and feeling. We can feel angry or unaffected, tearful or light-hearted, hopeless or euphoric. These feelings are to be acknowledged, as they are signs from someone.
Then True Love Comes is Irriesse Chia’s journey of realization and transformation, soulfully expressed through poems written through trial and error over twenty years. She bares her spiritual nakedness as she reveals her lookout, amidst the fusses of daily life, for a mysterious God that dumped her on earth.
Then True Love Comes challenges you—if you were the hero in your own adventure movie, how would that movie end? Is it possible to summon the kind of ending that you want, like a fairy-tale romance where true love comes in the end?
- As Chia has discovered through her own trial and error, these poems will inspire you to notice and reveal these findings in your own life:
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- The desires that have been planted in you will keep on calling you. You are worthy of it because you were made for it. •
- You can sieve through the daily motions of life to discover, accept, and follow your bliss. Then persist to trust and have faith in your journey instead of focusing on fear. •
- When you live in the end, you will awaken to your own power; so let your true love come.
About the Author
Irriesse Chia is a producer, director, and writer of entertainment, game shows, reality, drama, and film. As a broadcast production major and journalism minor at Western Michigan University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts, she reluctantly wrote her first poem in a creative-writing class. A lover of the performing arts living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Chia is reaching out to people through her writing to inspire those who aspire to recreate their lives.