Name: Yang Du’s Poem
Uploaded: 2025-11-27T14:20:21+08:00
Duration: 4 min 52 s
Description: Yang Du, a writer based in Taiwan, shared: “I wrote about how my mother used to wait for me when I was a child. When I left for university in Taipei, she would always say at the station, ‘Make sure you come back. Don’t make me wait like a cat, always

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Yang Du, a writer based in Taiwan, shared: “I wrote about how my mother used to wait for me when I was a child. When I left for university in Taipei, she would always say at the station, ‘Make sure you come back. Don’t make me wait like a cat, always watchful.’ Even after I grew up and traveled abroad for work, she continued to wait for me—always like a vigilant cat, longing for me to return and massage her. After she passed away, the roles reversed, and it became my turn to wait like a cat—for her to visit me in my dreams.”