1. The clouds float in the sky as though
Birds flew in the dawn of spring

2. White, grazing in vast space
Pure, floating high above the thorn trees

3. At times like the fluttering of tails, at others
Like the murmur between scattered and gathered

4. The winds flutter their edges and stir
Their middles with unraveling and mending

5. And the pond, its banks sloped,
Is like lovers at the sorrowful farewell

6. And the water is like one lost in obsession
It laments to you the chant of the anguished

7. Nature's laughter in spring is like
The laugh of a flirt in a lustful embrace

8. And when its brow smiles in autumn
You see a suspicious, reverent gaze

9. Like a beautiful woman whose beauty fades
During quick aging amidst youth