To —
이상화
What use is poem, what use is it to say,
only, when I would embrace thee again, never more?
without affection, lonesomely ─ dangerously, spending this day.
Thou went too early in the cosmosic circulation.
Thy bequest, that thou planted in my heart deep,
Unavailingly yet croons chasing the days of glorification.
O Honey! why my rosy face paled like the moon ─
and my thoughtful soul whenever look for thee?
But’ twas in vain, thy country was too dark and ruin.
only night, I build thy heavenly figure adumbral;
upon my vision’s sighful canvas,
and then, my eyes was a stormed channel.
O void forgetfulness! May I rest in thy pond deep,
and I would no more want, except one thing ─
Let me sleep ─ without wake ─ let me sleep……
─ From the「Bereft Soul」
