MISUNDERSTANDING

So let misunderstanding spread.

It only shows how different

you are from others.

Many things cannot bear

explaining; you’d better

let silence and labor speak

in your defense.

You don’t need many friends

or to be enamored with beautiful women

or share the wine of happy gatherings,

because you have solitude enough,

content to leave this world without a sound.

Distant thunder can give you pure joy.

Birds in the sky can teach you

another kind of wisdom.

As your soul is growing new wings

such words will disappear from your dictionary:

boundary, complaint, cowardice, collapse . . .