“If your wise head
Shall not feel bad,
A thing may I tell you
To make your heart glad

I may not be much wise
To give you any advice

Like you, I may not
Be well experienced
Nor on life’s stage
So skillfully danced

Even then,
Listen!

Even then,
Hearken!

I warn,
O Jaihoon,

Easy it is
To persuade
Others to call
A name after the devil

Ages, though, it may
Take to earn
A name that
Sounds human

He blessed us
As believers
To set an example
For others!”

Ah! Now this fool
Silently looks at the sky
And with a pounding heart
Begins to cry:

How very sincere,
An advice

My own self
I despise!

Ah! My state now
Is only to Him known
Why this sorrowful tale
I vainly clone!


April 2nd 2003. Edit Feb 2022