Blue Days

Because it seems to be one of them:


Dazzling blue days--
Know the longing for those we love.

The green in autumn's garden
withers to autumn hues;

snow fall
lets spring return.

And if I should die and you live?
Or you die? And I live?

On dazzling blue days we know
the longing for those we love.

-So Chongju (1915-2000), translated by David R. McCann

from The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, Ed. David R. McCann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) p.99