시 공항에서 영역
At the Airport
Hey, grandson, Dylan—
You came for a moment and already you are leaving.
Having completed your studies, now employment awaits;
yet before stepping into that new sky
you came to share the finest, most relaxed days of your life
with your grandpa.
How deeply proud I am of you.
My grandpa, long ago,
during one of those brief chances to meet,
grafted a persimmon branch onto a date-plum tree,
and showed with his own hands that kinship between generations
and the dawning of a new world could grow from one living body.
And I wonder—
did I tell you to move toward wider, higher spaces,
to gather momentum from the wisdom accumulated by years,
to borrow gravity and travel farther—
calling out to you:
Swing by.
Let us meet again when our persimmons ripen,
And share a high-five, a high-ten!
‘스윙 바이(Swing-by)’는 우주항행의 중력 도움(gravity assist) 의미