To Miss X

Klin Cheng

Apr 22, 1986 

You came to my store casually at night or day 

For a taste of food in a short stay 

Yet I expect the visit to be made everyday 

Because each time you show up you smile in a charming way

I believe you enjoy not only food delicious 

But also a heart that is pious 

And a manner that is gracious 

So I would like to make my offers righteous

I suggest to serve you with pen in addition to pan 

Thinking it will be your spiritual gain 

Yet I'm not sure if it is the right thing for you to entertain 

Because your ambiguous smiling convey meanings up to ten

To put an end to the guessing game 

Maybe I should have asked you for your name 

Yet doing it in a secular way is to me a shame 

Because I have long made the thing sublime my life-time aim

Indeed I take you as a lady that is utmost noble 

That's why sometimes I spoke to you with voices a little tremble 

Yet I keep longing to meet you in a quiet chamber 

Because I know then and there I would no longer be humble 

I believe one day for some reason you'll cease to appear 

Making my missing for you last year after year 

Yet I remain wishing to write you by calling you "my dear"

Because it’s my inner voice I want you to hear

By now my passion has been rushing to a peak 

And my saturated soul is asking for a leak 

Yet for help I can't resort to the Greek 

Because I have been waiting for your turn to speak

So, as long as you come now and then 

I'll make my food, spiritual and material, ready no matter when 

Because my wish is to let you remember 

The story of the mind is forever

And I hope at my naked heart you won't be horrified 

But only ask why