a strange girl in bright colours

When your face
appeared over my crumpled life
at first I understood
only the poverty of what I have. Then its particular light
on woods, on rivers, on the sea
became my beginning in the coloured world
in which I had not yet had my beginning.
I am so frightened, I am so frightened,
of the unexpected sunrise finishing,
of revelations
and tears and the excitement finishing.
I don't fight it, my love is this fear,
I nourish it who can nourish nothing,
love's shipshod watchman.
Fear hems me in.
I am conscious that these minutes are short
and the colours in my eyes will vanish
when your face sets.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

♥ Dress by MinkPink

♥ Cardi by Benetton

♥ Wedges by Tony Bianco