Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Kim Hae-ja/Republic of Korea

Dead Slow


Great love comes in dead slow

like a great ship putting into port.

Little body, please guide me.

Just as a great ship following a tugboat

surrenders the power of its whole body,

great love comes in so mild and cautious,

comes in at a speed close to death.

The boundless sea

I have hastened over at full speed

but how hard it is for me to reach you.

Don’t hurry. I will come to you

holding my breath in deathly quiet.

Don’t be sorrowful.

I might not be able to reach you in this life. 



[The 1st Asian Literature Festival 2017]

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