Allow Me

If I must worry about how

I will live in my old age

without wealth

I would be without health now

and how can I live to be

old?

If I must worry about how

I will live in my old age

without love

I would be without dreams now

and how can I go on living

another day?

Allow me to sit in the sun

and listen to the sky.

I will love you gently.

Allow me to stay in my room

and weave my rainbows.

I will love you truly.

Like a colt in the meadow

with no boundary

allow me

to wander around

till I hear the autumn

stealthily

strolling by my door.

I will be waiting

to be with you

then.

Copyright Credit: Chungmi Kim, “Allow Me” from Glacier Lily. Copyright © 2004 by Chungmi Kim. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press.

Source: Glacier Lily (Red Hen Press, 2004)