Laughing

I'm neither unhappy enough
to forget unhappiness
nor happy enough
to forget happiness.

The sun keeps speaking of day,
and the stars of night;
or, say rather, that a most beautiful silence
speaks of my heart and mine alone.

What is does not flow.
What comes and goes knows
nothing but this present moment.

To question the present moment is forbidden;
and one day, before this moment ends,
people may break out laughing.

~ Tanikawa Shuntaro