THE SUNFLOWERS by Wang Shaoyong

THE SUNFLOWERS

by Wang Shaoyong

A sunflower is enough to melt my heart,

now it's a crowd!

In the valley, a group of orphans

lift their tiny golden faces.

They gaze longingly all day,

and I too was there with them the whole day.

Now the sun is dipping over the mountain.

The sheep and cattle shimmer in the sunset,

a glow as if from within.

Two barefoot children run home.

The cooking smoke is calling them,

and I, the stranger,

squat down by a boulder,

and try to slice the sun in my body

into a thousand tiny pieces. 

About the poet:

Wang Shaoyong, born in Shan County, Shandong Province in 1983, graduated from Peking University and works for a newspaper in Beijing.