Shhh*

by Moon In-soo

I have been to his father's funeral.He told me a story: he,who had passed his sixtieth

year.Held his father beyond 90 and helped him urinate.Even though life's important

controls had lef the old body,his mind was steel like a lantern.Afraid that the old man

might feel hopeless,he helped him,half joking and half playing the baby,saying

"Father,shhh,shhh,all right,right you must feel good."When he held his father,it was

as if he enterd deep into the whole body.When he held his father like that as though

giving back to the body,how muh might the old man have tried to shrink himself to

make himself smaller and lighter? his urine thread cut off frequiently, but such a long

thread that the son again and again tried to tie it down to the earth pitifully, but the

father with difficulty might sever it now.Shhh,Shhh! The universe must be quiet