Reflections of a Man's Heart

When I lean on you with
unfathomably contradictory thoughts,
my longing
inevitably provokes an image:
The transparency of my window!
Day after day
quietly shutting out
time that flows past like water.
Now you link with eternity the fact
that some day all things
must be buried in oblivion's shade,
as if suggesting the reason why we live.
Gateway to mystery: all complex desires
vanish, purified;
you take all this world's trivial daily events
and put them in their proper place.
Then every night unfailingly I
find silence, window, thanks to you
I foster waiting eyes, enduring
on and on, and do not despair.

- Lee Hyong Ki