Poem

This poem is by the Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
It is one of my favourites poems.It is so beautiful and honest.

Colors

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 slipshod watchman.

Fear hems me in.
I am conscious that these minutes are short
and that the colours in my eyes will vanish
when your face sets.