Falling Blossoms

Lee Hyeong-gi (1933-2005)

How beautiful is
the back of a departing person
who knows when to depart?

My love that has endured the passion
over the spring
is now falling.

Falling blossoms scatter…
Now is the time to depart,
surrounded by the blessing
the departure has achieved.

Toward the greenery
and the autumn
that will soon bear fruit,

my youth falls like a flower.
Let’s depart—
on the day when a flower
falls as it waves its fine hand

Like water stagnates in a spring,
my love, my departure,
the sad eyes of my soul mature.