Our Happy God Is...Green Poem by Reshida Coba

Our Happy God is...Green

Today at dawn I sent you my kisses by grass
Why are you not waking up?
Are you still busy kissing my eyes?
Are you still in the sky… inside the cloud where we first met?

Get out of the dream! I have flung the door open. It is day outside!

I have put on the green dress for your sake
Do you remember the day we parted…? I pretended as if I were shaking
the light from my shoulders
And shyly said, "do I look pretty in green? "

You planted your gaze on my white breasts
carefully fixing your eyes as close to the center
and the smell of milk as possible

How can I describe this feeling of mine, this green breath?
I hear willow whispers
I become a green trend,
Transformed into the most perfect form of clarity

The face of the grass so similar to mine… like any beginning of life!

The jealous wind insists on flirting,
grabbing my waist with a kiss
I feel the invasion unlike male wisdom,
female wisdom lies at the waist

Deep below it is the magical planet of the womb where man is conceived

Believe me: A leaf of grass has no fewer thoughts, no less work, no fewer secrets than universe does
and it has eyes of light as big as… mine!

Each time I think of you…I get freshened like grass does
I feel the flow of the beautiful stream of freshness

Do we not resemble the sun's phenomenon - the raindrop?
The tremors of their touch
cause the earth-sky rainbow to arise
Opposite the sun's brightness

Surprised we both ask
why amidst the rainbow's seven colors?
Why the green is in the center, why it is the chosen one?

It is so beautiful to live in the mind of a woman
with green meadows
At night you wander through her gardens of flowers
you water the morrow's buds

Do you not feel to be the heavenly chosen…?
Speak up, my heavenly rainbow arcing over me!