What I am thinking now
is what someone else has already thought
somewhere in this world.
Don't cry.
What I am thinking now
is what someone else is thinking now
somewhere in this world.
Don't cry.
What I am thinking now
is what someone else is about to think
somewhere in this world.
Don't cry.
How joyful it is
that I am composed of so many ‘I’s
in this world, somewhere in this world.
How joyful it is
that I am composed of so many others
Don't cry.
Ko Un -
A Certain Joy
My Lights
About Ko Un -
--Ultimately, I want to be a poem without poems and a poet
without poems, and I want to write poems without poet. I
want to belong to the poem that is before or after the
language. from Conversations with Ko Un
--One dream remains: may the fossilised butterfly
underground in some distant future be a fossilised song.
