Su Ben Poet Free verse

What Did Flowing Water Say

flowing water said “i have no strength to go upstream.
i cannot row the paddle named hope to proceed because
the food i was fed to sustain my life was not nourishment   
but men’s anguish”  

at the time i fell into an abyss of despair 
agonizing to overcome the countercurrent 
i always was carried down by the current,
it may be my destiny i cannot circumvent or avoid  

it doesn’t matter what i’ll become or where i’ll wind up 
for i am a pathetic dew drop born in one morning 
by the foot of a mountain; how can i, therefore, 
complain flowing downward carrying life’s misery 
  
occasionally, nonetheless, i feel sorry for life,
does that mean even flowing water have feelings?
it’s a great surprise for me to find out
 
drifting cloud said looking down on the flowing water
“don’t be so sentimental over life but just go along with 
the river water’s destiny. since men’s tragedy is calamity; 
betrayal, wrath, envy, frustration, all those negative notions are 
men’s evil thoughts come to the surface as a tear disguised as clear dew”

“it’s a dagger only men’s craftiness can create”
the water kept flowing downward carrying 
the pathos of life ignoring what the cloud said

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