Farewell by Chao Li-hua

My boat goes west, yours east.
Heaven’s a wind for both journeys.
From here, the clouds and the mountains,
the horizon’s vague.
A thousand miles . . .
My heart, a dark swan,
confused in the vastness.

translated by J.P. Seaton

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