Sometimes

They Come:

Sometimes when you have worked day and night,

dog tired, and want to have a good sleep

after a shower and an extra nightcap,

they come. They change the color of your dream:

you moan for the wounds on your body,

you weep for the fates of others.

Only now you dare to fight back with your hands,

but a “bang” or an “ouch”

brings you back to silence and sleeplessness again.

 

See, they come.

Ha Jin.