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Round Treasure Box

Where is my fantasy

By San DomingoPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Round Treasure Box
Photo by Heather Ford on Unsplash

I imagined where (in the river of heaven?)

I have fished out a round treasure box that

Contains several pearls:

A crystal of mercury

Covered with the color of the world.

A golden lamp

A golden light, a feast.

A fresh raindrop

Contains your sighs from last night ......

Don't go to any watch store

Listen to your youth being eaten away.

Don't go to some antique store

Buy your grandfather's old ornaments.

Look at my round treasure box

Followed by a boat downstream

And it's gone, though the cabin is full of people

Forever in the arms of the blue sky.

Though your handshake

is a bridge! It's a bridge! But the bridge

Is also built into my round treasure box.

And my round treasure box is in you

Or they may be

well hung in the ear of a

A pearl -- a jewel? --- a star?

surreal poetry

About the Creator

San Domingo

He who lights a candle to illuminate others does not bring darkness to himself

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