Brief Contemplation for a Sunday of Uncertainties

Oceans

Juan Ramón Jiménez

I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
. . . . . .. . . .  . . . . And nothing
happens!  Nothing . . . Silence . . . Waves . . .

— Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
And we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?

(translation by Robert Bly)