Something On Earth

Something must have happened

On earth

The clouds

That towered

For days and nights above the steppe

Pushing dents

In my winter-tired tent

Are bursting apart now

Moving on in gray clumps

Perhaps a knot loosened

From the great tent whose roof struts

Are beams of sun, moon and wind

Or it was you who sent a bright thought

This way or lured from a hiding place

The dream which

Long expected

Only arrived last night

And which I

Hunkered in hope

Passed on to the coming day.

Galsan Tschinag

Look Up

Look up

See the snowflakes

Floating down

They are travelers coming home

They inhabited this earth

Before you and me

They are ancestors, brothers and sisters

Companions in time and space

Then sand, wind, stars

That rested, blew, flickered

Many of them

Perhaps we knew

Lived with them

In harmony

But often in bitter

Discord as well

Now they have

Become clouds

And return home as snow

Listen to

Their rushing sounds

It is a whispering

About you or me

           

Be silent

As they are

Fearing

To wake us

From the dream

Called life

Galsan Tchinang

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