and boats still have rivers and green still has grasses

A Child's Song For Adults
by Nguyen Trong Tao (1992)

there are dead forest branches still green inside me
there are those still alive who seem to have passed

there are answers that turn to questions
there are affairs that turn to marriages

there are fathers there are mothers there are orphans
and not all old moons must be round like platters

there is all the world and nowhere to live
there is passing happinness and immeausurable sadness

and boats still have rivers and green still has grasses
and life is still drunk and the soul full of winds

there is loving there is longing there is crying there is laughing
there are bats of an eyelid that last a thousand years

Via Anais.