XIǍ O HÚDIÉ...XIǍ O GŪ AIGŪ AI
(Little Butterfly...Little Sweetie)

The stars
finding it hard

to keep their eyes
open.

Moon tucked up
in a comfortable cloud

already fast asleep
turns & smiles.

Even the dark is nodding off
dreaming of...light

Even the cricket
has gone asleep

even the fire sleeps
in a nightdress of ashes

all this
dreamy night.

Only the baby(our little sweetie)
lies awake

playing with
the bright butterfly

dancing in her
dress of brilliant colour

bobbing  on the string
before her.

She tells the butterfly
delightedly over & over

that she is
beauty

but the butterfly doesn’t understand
the language of gurgle.

Somewhere
in the dark

Da da
snores

Ma ma
sleeps quiet.