Your smile lights up your face,
Your face lights up a room,
Light this world around you.
For you are vibrant candle-life
And concomitant fuel;
Within that waxing we will find
There burns another two –
Red and orange flickers,
In Chinese Lantern hearts
My lungs like old balloons.
Tea-lights in these lotuses
Over lakes, beyond pontoons,
Causeways through a thousand
Tiny, endless moons,
A route, a moment in time,
A kiss made statuesque
Within my memory of you.
Your smile lights up your face,
Your face lights up a room,
And when the night has found its place
Your light’s inside me too.
Seven Hundred Jisei 