From [Attraction] by Lee Byeong Ryul

I found a photocopy of a page from a travel essay

in piles of my stuffs before I left for Seoul.

I remember it's done just before I returned the book

to my friend a couple of years ago.

It's a little surprise to make me look back

what I've nearly forgot.

(There could be silly mistakes of translation.)

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[Attraction] Lee Byeong Ryul


#024
I leave...

When I'm breathing a dry breath in a city just like a huge fish bowl,
speaking loudly about a secret with somebody who should be the first exception to talk to or share with,
feeling like releasing eveythining surrounding myself all of sudden,
checking the balance from a bank account when eyes are open in the middle of night,
avoiding the front page of the day's newspapaer while waiting for an order in a snack bar,
when I hear a whale ,which should breathe with it's lungs, is pushed up to the surface to breathe by it's friend whale,
watching a squat snail crawling far away and it's wet trace,
realising there's nothing touching my heart while lying down in remote sea being naked,
nodding reluctuntly at what people say without logic ; maybe there're only men and women in this world and all the stories in the world are all about men and women,
being in the middle of a crowd who get tired even before the hope arrives knowing waiting is the hope,
pitch darkness comes in the middle of day time, so the day gets heavy,
feeling like closing my eyes as the body gets hot with sweet breeze,
something filled up is spilt over,
fixing a picture frame leant somewhere after moving in for a long time just after somebody tells me,
don't feel like turning around in moon light with love already took over each other,
sitting in a daze with a backpack packed without any special purpose,
don't feel like turing around any more after walking on and on,
feeling just grateful without any special reason, without anybody to be grateful to,
when the flowers in the garden kept blooming and falling in lunar cycle say that it's the time to be back,
Realising I can't see somebody any more; never again...