Weaning From Face Masks

 
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Weaning from face masks 

To such a day I aspire.


Stale with days and nights,

My face was masked with sourness 

For want of a change.


Weaning from face masks

To such a day I aspire.


There returns 

Smoke through men's pipes,

Gloss on women's lips, 

And children's songs.


Back to

School, me. 

Hearing the recitals,

Wandering the campus.

 

Weaning from face masks 

To such a day I aspire.


Men and women

No longer wrapped in protective gear, 

Fighting their way

Amid the poison of disease.

 

Weaning from face masks 

To such a day I aspire.


In Wuhan and all China

Do we 

Freely breath,

And each other embrace. 

To remember the taste of nice food,

And the New Year bypassed.

 

Weaning from face masks 

To such a day I aspire.


Sun kissing me on the lips,

And spring through my nostrils 

With warm words around.


Weaning from face masks

To such a day I aspire.

  

Weaning from face masks, 

From Fear,

Delusion, 

And discord.


Weaning from face masks

Might be 

Only temporary.

If the scourge 

Is not extinct for good.


Weaning from face masks,

Might be 

Also people in other lands

Face masked already, or not. 

Weaned, or not?


Weaning from face masks,

Pray we may be 

Also away with goggles,

Orthopedics, 

And everything not a part of us.


Weaning from face masks

Pray we may be, 

From the masks

To nature, 

Freedom,

And health.

(The poem was written in Chinese by Wang Zhongzhou, and translated into English by Zhu Wenyi)

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