Poems describing Potala Palace are quick and urgent.

the Potala Palace

Now I know who the king is.

Whose head is floating with clouds, whose window is open in the sky, whose threshold is also in the sky.

The feet are above 3 kilometers above sea level.

Now I know whose skin this is.

Not white jade, platinum, nor silver, but

Wearing ordinary white mud

Now I know it is far away from me.

Far and near, far like a person in a previous life.

As close as before the Buddha.

A lamp

Now I know it's called Potala Palace.

But it's not Potala, it's just a cloud and a gust of wind on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

I turned around.

It disappeared ...