Guessing by What I Glimpsed
I still haven't been able to figure out
Which is more potent:
The river or its current?
It could be the river
For its bank contains
Fish and the ebb and flow of tides
And displays both restlessness and placidity.
It could be the river,
To which our green rice fields
Remain indebted.
But the current?
No, I'll never know what it is capable of,
Guessing by what I glimpsed of it
In 1971!
Which is more potent:
The river or its current?
It could be the river
For its bank contains
Fish and the ebb and flow of tides
And displays both restlessness and placidity.
It could be the river,
To which our green rice fields
Remain indebted.
But the current?
No, I'll never know what it is capable of,
Guessing by what I glimpsed of it
In 1971!
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