Warm Regards---안부

Warm Regards  Surely you know the man called by ‘Daethgabudo’*None doesn’t know him, there in Gunsan.Out the Haemangdong tunnel,Keeping his head steady, as big as a watermalon,Aroung the quayside in the rain,Singing a military song to the fishy whistling of a boat,Was the lad. Guess he became old enough.As if on a silky textureLikewise Jesus did,Wishing to tread on the sea,Now he has gone over forty years in peace.It was our Kingdom, under the wall of primary school.‘Look, it’s Daethgabudo, crazy! you raver!’The kiddies were spitting,Throwing stones to him. Usually Daethgabudo said,‘Get out! Are you mad? you crazy?’ Oh, his outcries were whirlingInto the blue sky like an empty wind.Over the sky so beautiful in blueA few planes were flying away.Surely I believe,Before me,He would die. My compassion as steady as a sapping-up in jujube twigs,There’s no way to send it to him…… We became grown up as expectedAnd our children are also growing up,Covered with mud and earth. In a secret page of my memorandumDaethgabudo is growing older and older unfairely.  안부(安否) 자네도 알지‘데스가부도’라는 사람군산 사람이면 누구나 알 것이네해망동 굴 밖 비릿한 뱃고동 소리에수박덩이만 한 머리통을 가누고비 오는 부두에서 군가를 부르던그 총각. 많이 늙었다데비단 폭 밟듯, 예수처럼바다를 밟고 싶어 하며평화롭게 마흔 살도 넘었다데초등학교 뒷담 밑은우리들의 왕궁‘야, 데스가부도다, 미친 놈! 설친 놈!’조무래기들은 침을 뱉으며팔매질하며 그러면 데스가부도는‘저리들 가! 느이들 미쳤냐? 미쳤어?’ 아! 그의 절규가헛바람처럼 맴돌던 초록 하늘정녕 아름답던 초록 하늘엔비행기 몇 대가 날고 있었지나보다먼저 죽고 말 것이네그는 대추나무 잔가지로 수액이 뻗치듯천천한 내 사랑은 전할 길이 없이…… 우리들은 소망대로 어른이 되고우리들의 어린 것들은 골목에서흙 묻어 크네 내 비망록 저 은밀한 부분에서데스가부도가 억울하게 늙어가네