Silence

[Zeno]

Summer Night

Cool perfume of bamboo prevades my room,
Wild moonlight fills the whole courtyard:
Drop by drop falls the the crystal dew.
One by one the moving stars appear.
The fleeting glow-worms sparkle in dark corners.
The waterfowl on the river bank call to one another;
Everything in the world follows the path of war-
I sit on my bed, meditating through the night.

-Tu Fu, Chinese poet (713-770)