Burning Prayer  / Mun Sun Jung





It was one candle burning



It was

Breathlessly holding back its wishes,

Then suddenly

Crawling up on the walls and

Licking the multi-layered barks of the ages



Mesmerizing words are

Burning themselves to pitch-black ashes;

The dazzling breasts are

revealed

And time is fading into white



Mother's gone for long

But I still can hear her prayer

That is flickering from afar