Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
My father was a surveyor
A maker of maps
I never knew I would become one too
But a mapper of my own heart
A surveyor of my own human folly
Outlining the contours of my brokenness
Untangling the lines of elevation
from the depressions
Finding out that no matter whatever hill I conquer
there’s always another mountain to roll that rock up
Another imagined weight of the world
on my shoulders to lift
Another mound under my feet
of unrealized expectations
The dirt below awaiting my return
The worms plotting and parcelling out
the topography of my insides
on an atlas no one
will ever see
First published in Men Matters Online Journal, Malaysia.
