The Birds Have Vanished into the Sky
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
you ask
why I perch
on a jade green mountain?
I laugh
but say nothing
my heart free
like a peach blossom
in a flowing stream
going by
in the depths
in another World
not among men.
-- Li Po'