Poem: We will meet as water

We will meet as water
- Kang Eun Kyo

If we meet as water,
Which house will dislike it?
If we flow like the rain
Next to the tall tree,

And flow towards
The lonely deepening river at dawn
And lie to wash the root of a dead tree
To touch the embarrassed sea that is still a virgin

However, we, right now
Try to meet as fire
Already a bone that became a coal
Is touching the burning things of the world

You, who are waiting outside of 4000km,
let meet as flowing water after this fire

Talk like the dying fire,
And when you come,
Come to the large, clean sky,
Where visits of human stopped

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When I read this poem, I noticed that this is a poem of hope. The author hopes for a new world, an ideal world that currently does not exist. It wishes to meet others as water rather than fire. Fire is an element that represents conflict and war. It represents the  weapon that we use for war. Currently, we only try to meet as fire. We only try to use physical or political force to resolve conflict. However the author wishes to meet as water to build a virgin sea. Virginity represents purity and originality. We must return to our original state, where no conflict existed. I do not image that conflict existed in the very beginning of our world, but I think people slowly became corrupted.

The author ends the poem with a remark to meet at the large, clean sky. There is no boundary in the sky. This is why HWPL works towards building heavenly culture as it provides the earth with rain, light, and air without cost and discrimination. I hope that through the peace movement with HWPL and Chairman Man Hee Lee, we will give up fire and eventually meet as water to create one big river that flows in one direction.