Hum

Tonight is one of my calmer nights for sure. To add to this calm: a touching stanza!

standing in the murky ditch beside the road
the pure and beaming faces of the lotus rise
alive with trembling, glimmering drops of dew,
as gentle and as fresh as we were, lying side by side,
cheeks upon our hands and lost in poems we loved.

-"No Songs Today, No Sepha" by Naowarat Pongpaiboon
(trans. Ajarn Kepner)