
Do water lilies really die?
How far can the eye see?
How much a shadow weigh?
Only the old willow knows.
Pond of stillness.
Mirror of vastness.
We are like water rings
short-lived little things,
forgotten wonders
fallen from the night sky,
gleams of a dream
in a child’s heart.
illustration: Water Lilies (Claude Monet, 1906)