<가을을 위하여> 우리가 아무 생각 없이 살아가는 동안 가을 빛은 제 몫을 다 한다 늘 우리들 뒤켠에 서서도 욕심을 내지 않는 가을 햇살 오늘은 또 누구를 만나려는지 일찌감치 사과밭까지 와서 고 작은 사과를 만지작거린다 햇살은 가을을 위해 모두를 주면서도 소리 내지 않고 조용히 다닌다 노원호의 '가을을 위하여' 에서 해마다 가을이 오면 제가 다시 읽어보는 동시입니다. 산에서 들에서 단풍 구경을 하며 가을의 아름다움을 예찬하는 친지들의 글을 읽으면 마음이 밝고 따뜻해집니다. ------------------------------------------ Here is a poem for you. Please read when you feel the time for you to uplift your spirit. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Everything remains as it was. The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no sorrow in your tone. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting, when we meet again. It is one of the Irish poems which makes people feel at home in thinking what this life is all about.