Back to Heaven

I’ll go back to heaven again.

Hand in hand with the dew

that melts at a touch of the dawning day,

I’ll go back to heaven again.

With the dusk, together, just we two,

at a sign from a cloud after playing on the slopes

I’ll go back to heaven again.

At the end of my outing to this beautiful world

I’ll go back and say: That was beautiful. . . .

By Ch’ŏn Sang-Pyŏng

Translated from the Korean by

Brother Anthony of Taizé