Her Man [Completed]

Prolog

For You

Yesterday when I met you

I was feeling sad.

On the way to my dreary home

the sound of the stream was louder

because so many wrongs are being committed.

But it was only after meeting you

that I started to realize

that the wrongs in my heart

grow deeper the more I try to forget them,

grow remoter the more I bring them to mind.

Among all the things I have

for you,

I desire to keep hidden for ever

the things that should stay hidden.

But still, since I have learned that anyone

who cannot feel pain on your account

is unable to comfort the world in its pain,

in so far as my shame and my pain

are all for you,

I long to reveal them all.

Since I first met you

a wind has been gusting in my heart,

about twice the affection you feel for me

and my heart has been aching but

as I think of all I have to give

for you

I feel increasingly happy.

Korean poem by An Do Hyon 안도현- (titled: For You, Korean Literature Today, Vol. 04 No. 02, Page 30.), source: http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr)