I have been thinking

By Kabir Kabir

I have been thinking of the difference between water

and the waves on it. Rising,

water's still water, falling back,

it is water, will you give me a hint

how to tell them apart?

Because someone has made up the word

"wave," do I have to distinguish it

from water?

There is a Secret One inside us;

the planets in all the galaxies

pass through his hands like beads.

That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.