For Che

To call you
sweet,
would be to
say
the same of
Godiva chocolate
and who
on earth
would do that?

There is a softness,
a kindness,
that glows
from you,
yet much like
the Persian
rice you
serve us,
there is a delicious
grit at the
bottom, a chewy
tenacity which
transforms
the outer dish.

While beauty
is indeed, or at least
partly, in the eye of
the beholder,
there an unmistaken
awe that
flows from the
folds of your
magnificence.

Do not underestimate
the space you
occupy, or rather,
electrify,
for as far as
humans go, from
the extensive sample
I’ve met,
your gloriousness
knows no bounds.

~Lu