We cannot feel alive <br />without sensations. <br />A gentle brush <br />or a piercing pain: <br />these are necessary <br />to be a mortal. <br />It is only when a <br />forceful bite <br />reveals that blood still flows <br />beneath this chalky skin <br />that I am reminded <br />that I have yet to join <br />the immortal dead.<br /><br />Yiling Ding<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/proof-of-life-2/
