DU FU

 All that wandering,

in the Yangtze valley,

on the southern lakes -

surely he knew that the goal -

the northern plains of the Yellow River

where, looted, the capitals changed owners -

he wrote in his poems,

was not the true goal to reach,

but an ideal, a dream

in which to garb

the restless travelling

on the southern waters,

the life of an exile

he had come to accept?

That here was his

real home, the currents

of man and nature,

on water and soil,

tumbling towards

that final voyage

up the Xiang.

08.02.2021