The Prop-Root     Hsu ChiCheng  WAAC World Congress of Poets

I never mind

Whether the soil is fertile or not

Whether it is large or not

Whether the scenery is beautiful or not

Whether it is fit for me to live or not

I never mind these

I only persist：

I will reside here long

For I love this land

I am a magical tree

My main root is large, thick

And strong

Since I was born here

I will reside here abidingly

I will take my root deeply and firmly here

No matter how many difficulties I will meet

I will unshakably take root here

Deeply and firmly

Even if someone laughs me and treats me as a fool

Even isolates me and press me

I will never mind

I only persist my own ideal

I am not a migratory bird

I love this land

I will reside here abidingly

And take root deeply and firmly

In this land…

My root is large and thick

It is a proof that shows:

I am of this land

I will never leave this land

No matter how external force interfere

The wind, rain, snow and burning sun

Cannot shake my faith

I will stand here erectly

Towering uprightly eternally…

Poems of the world  Summer 2013