Victim of Circumstance
The lovers wanted to go mad in the love of their beloveds.
Suddenly something happened, no one knows what.
All of a sudden, all the lovers declared, love is a lie.
Then together they all committed suicide.
When you said, you were only a victim of the circumstance.
Novelty
People curious about novelty always wander searching for the new.
They lose interest even in old houses, cars, relationships.
So there is no pride in sitting in someone’s seat of priority,
nor regret in not receiving someone’s importance.
Endure the rules by obeying the rules.
Treasury of Sorrow
I have measured from the sky to the underworld,
have measured how wide my chest truly is.
I saw that between the two, my chest is wider.
There is enough space here to store sorrow.
That is why people feel comfort depositing their sadness here.
The House of Love
You understand distance yet move farther away,
but you don’t understand how much grief distance holds.
Even when told “stay”, you don’t understand,
how will you ever understand these tear-soaked eyes!
You know flowers as symbols of love,
yet you don’t see,
this chest has built a home for you out of love.
First Love
You call her an ex,
but I call her my first love.
In wanting her, I did not want myself.
Still, she is the lover I could never have,
the home I could never build,
the happiness my life lost forever.
Soil and Mountain
The mountain swallowed the soil,
thinking its power eternal, unstoppable!
The soils all thought,
that it is droplets of soil that touch the sky,
that the mountain’s pride lies in the roots of the soil.
Why then does the murderous mountain break its promise today?
The soils united,
turned their grief into revolution and stepped aside.
And the mountain without soil?
In the end it hung upon its own hollow arrogance.
Burning Wood
If the absence of a person could be filled even by the whole world,
no word like separation would ever be born.
Separation happens only when the other person realizes,
their absence can no longer be fulfilled by all of creation.
Now the burning can begin well,
as if selecting the finest wood.
Love
When someone’s unbearable neglect exhausts you,
yet you extend your hand to them for peace.
You get hurt again, you break again,
yet you cannot hate them.
Rather you feel,
death might be more satisfying than hatred.
And this is what I know as love.
Do Not Love
On the day of our farewell,
I was looking at you.
Thank goodness you didn’t turn back while leaving.
Otherwise I would have run to you and held you tight,
forgetting, you do not love me.
Stay Well
If staying forgetful gives you happiness,
then stay forgetful.
If keeping distance gives you comfort,
then stay distant, yet stay well.