Face Poem by Banu Dai

In the absence of blue light

Engulfed by sleepiness

He was a face hidden in the darkness

By the reddish warmth of the firewood

I waited

Blinded suddenly by the illumination

It was a revelation, a face.



The earth turned

I turned with it

My thoughts scattered as if windblown

Growing inside me

In the direction of the prevailing wind

Was a seed

Spreading out its radical

Attaching within.



I was a dried flower

Wrapped in the leaves of loneliness

I unfurled and expanded

Steeped by love

Emulating,

A blooming flower



I was a green garden

Fragrant with the smell of the roses

Kissed by the thoughts of togetherness

Not a blade of grass

It dawned

I recognized in the weak sunlight

It was a face

In a green pullover.