Youth

Youth is a time filled with endless dreams.

Youth is a time filled with unlimited beauty.

Youth is full of boundless love.

And though their youth may fade and they may grow

old,

people will continue to live on as they are.

Youth is youthfulness;

that they live unbound to youth is because

they do not know of its departure or arrival.

In the distant state in which

there is no youthfulness in youth nor any aging,

one is silent even if, there are blues, yellows, or blacks;

he does not think about youth or old age.

To not look back upon the youth that has passed

but to keep walking on is the flow of nature.

So do not dwell on your youth;

do not boast or speak of the glorious days of your youth.

There was your youthfulness that once existed

and the love that you once had,

but they have all become mere delusions and dust.

Page 31 of “Nature Flows” by Woo Myung