Today
You and I
Are stepping over that venerable threshold
Don’t offer blessings
Don’t say goodbye
To do so would sound like a performance
Better to keep silence
Concealing isn’t necessarily deceptive
Why not leave memories for the future
Just as we leave dreams for the night
Or tears in the sea
And wind in the sails
Translated by Fang Dai, Dennis Ding, & Edward Morin