In the Imjin River, again

Poem / Trans. Lee Jong Woo

The River don't know
The thick colour of
The hum sounds coming the time
And breathing is gone down
And the hot eyelights only pure down
The River Imjin River
To the west flow together

The River is shouting.
The bloody word of the live and the die
And the slogan of the wealth flap
Pour out the pang not to go over
The River Imjin River
Flow the current in a strange laugh

The River don't know.
The men why do astray so and
The caprice built and destroyed over and over
The castle of the ruins and irrationality
The River Imjin River
Is moaning river.