The Barn
Passing by a patch of land, like similar farmland,
Yellow and green.
Similar houses, washed away by wind and rain.
The same bonfire, a dog,
A tractor, sunset,
No people, no shadows, no smoke.
Taste a mouthful of homemade food's fragrance,
Watch transparent bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass,
Go to the long-illed beds, in company without months.
Let people look at that tasteful life under sun,
Or perhaps the same, square building.
Some call this the barn.
Around it is iron skin, blue and gray paint,
With a hint of rust showing through the trend.
Everything is as usual,
Like it has been for several centuries,
Ever new, as old.
Gazing, with a few minutes of trance,
The long wait has not yet been compensated with a moment.
While goats raise their hooves,
Hear maturity calling on the plains,
Cows lower their heads, waiting for the train to pass.
Clicking sounds, passing by, that piece,
A space surrounded by barren lands.
Only in moments of approach,
Between illness and whispers,
Those fish, sunken, in space.
Cite as: Dai Pan, "The Barn," Three Worlds, Their World, poem 17, 2025. https://daipan.ink/their-world/the-barn