Excerpts from Xi Murong's Poems That Astonish the World

1.

How to Meet You

In My Most Beautiful Moments

For This

I Have Prayed Before Buddha for Five Hundred Years

2.

Twenty Years Later, While Wounded

Our Souls Return Every Night

When the Breeze Passes By

It Transforms into a Full Garden of Fragrant Flowers

3.

Please Sing Me a Song of Outward Passage

Using the Forgotten Ancient Words

Please Call Out to Me with Beautiful Tremolos

The Great Rivers and Mountains in My Heart

Those Only Found Outside the Great Wall

4.

If I Were to Meet You Again in Another Life

Just to Gather Once

Just for That Moment of Sweetness and Sorrow Billions of Light-Years Away

That Moment, All the Sweetness and Sorrow

5.

I Really Like Those Kind of Dreams

Knowing You Have Traveled Thousands of Miles for Me, Yet Still Feeling the Fragrance of Fresh Grass and Fallen Petals

It's as if We Have Just Met

6.

The Young You Flees Like a Shadow

Your Smile is So Shallow and Fleeting

Gradually Vanishes in the Evening Mist

I Turned Over That Yellowed Page

Fate Bound It with Crude Stitching

With Tears, I Read It Again and Again

But I Have to Admit

Youth is a Book Too Hastily Written

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