I hear your crisp tears <br />Clambering up the throat cliff <br />While you are eating. <br />Why you are so queer, <br />Why you like to disappear, <br />Why you always fling yourself to <br />Be gone with the warm empty air? <br /> <br />I think you could pick up <br />All your dewy eyes <br />Then tell me some words, <br />Really who you are <br />It fairly puzzles. <br /> <br />A throbbing weeping night, <br />An umbrella you hold in hand tight, <br />Where you want to flee? <br />Or where you hunt to hide? <br /> <br />Catching the swimming tangle of steps, <br />I find you quivering abstract <br />In a mossy dripping corner. <br />Worried stuffs me with a numb anger. <br />'Could you let me know <br />If next time you want to wander? ' <br />I utter. <br /> <br />Forcefully <br />Your face turns pale <br />Rains glue the eyes <br />Hands sweaty fingers unquiet <br />Blue lips blankly rhyme. <br /> <br />Maybe you are a little deer <br />That not very polite, <br />Maybe heavy cheers hang rarely <br />On your creamy cheeks. <br />You throw your secret high <br />Where no one can spy, <br />But show me a photo <br />Under the sleepy stony night. <br /> <br />The crawling colour on it is your mother, <br />White grace wrapped her <br />Breeze embraced a mild laughter. <br />Ebony hairs flying with the fragrant Spring, <br />Ivory hands freely combing the pregnant Green. <br /> <br />Tears <br />Ears <br />Clouds <br />Walls <br />Leaves <br />Petals <br />Caves <br />Shadows <br />W-A-T-C-H-I-N-G <br />Hand in hand. <br /> <br />It's a wordless night, <br />I meet many wordless eyes. <br />However at last I know, <br />Why you run so fast <br />As an arrow <br />Into the knitting broken rain, <br />Why your suspension points of wheaty smile <br />Were heaped up <br />On the firmly biting keen. <br /> <br />A murderer of the motherless nightmare <br />A prisoner of the nevermore lilac smell. <br /> <br />Silence is a big brassy chain <br />Banging the pebbles under foot <br />Again and again.<br /><br />Wang Qian<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lilac-mother/
