Cockroach
While I was at home wasting time
A cockroach crawled out quickly
From a dark corner
And took flight luxuriously
Laughing at my indolence
Dark wings quivering, shimmering
Like insidious black leaves
Frightening me
The fearless shining bug
Gnaws on the deep darkness
Battening on blackness, spreading rumors
And causing jitters, black and greedy
Hatching eggs in the darkness
Bugs incubate and sneak out stealthily
Peeping furtively, their tenacity for life gruesome
Black bugs march, spreading like eerie cries
From a grave in the darkness
Disgusting, stagnating like a slowly stuffed trophy
Beloved of the darkness
Like immortal life
Like eternal blackness, ceaselessly crawling
The gaiety of flowers is never seen here
Only dark panting and gasping
For breath on all sides
Dreamy light is too far away
By Poet, Soonja Kwon, born in 1958, poetry 『A Thousand Tears』 etc.
Translatey Clara Soonhee Kwon-Tatum, Ph.D and Matthew Lewis, M.Ad b
