DEPARTURE OF AFFECTIONS
Departure of
affections
Does not
reside in one place
Returns in
the face of a sweet girl
Creates memories
with questions
And I feel
sad
I tell her
I cannot
love you
You deserve
loves more passionate than mine
Deeper than
the ocean
That surrounds
your peninsular land
Thank you
for your looks
That smile
I watched
your lips
What a pity I
cannot be your lover
Someone has
to whisper
All the
tenderness you sprouted in me
I who adore
tropical sunsets
And island
evenings
Indoors with
aromas of delicious food
You live so
far
Under the
shadows of mountains
With snowcapped
peaks
Your lips
giving shape
To the words
From the
fountain of your emotions
I feel your
emotions
But I look
at your lips
“I wonder
who is kissing her now.”
All of you
can be surrounded by my feeling
You search
and feel it
But can’t
find its origins
Whether you
are in the desert dunes of historical oblivion
Or in the
ordered steps of constructed social spaces
Food and
music, and the darkness of the world outside
I am alive,
heart bathed in light
If distance
matters, it lessens
With the
heart so alight
I melt into
the whiteness of your face
My memory of
your face
Comes out of
darkness, no one is present
With this
happiness
I will
follow you through the night
Of such
togetherness
In my heart…
"San
konno san itta" is a traditional Korean phrase that means:
Over
the mountains are mountains.
No
matter how life appears at any moment, the path ahead contains countless
valleys and peaks.
You
might consider questions such as these:
Do
you think that you will reach a point in life where there will no longer be
challenges and mistakes?
Are
difficult times separate from the great joys in life, or are they simply one
aspect of a vast landscape?
deliciously named Ice Cream Mountains..
