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Today's poem is 'Railroad' by poet Kim Jeong-hwan. ------------------ The fact that a railroad is a railroad means that the impossibility of meeting is, for now, so tenacious. The rain has always fallen to moisten the seething railroad so that the solid lump of iron can endure this much. The fact that the railroad has endured as a railroad without collapsing means that the hopes of those who have walked on it and passed by were that stifling and burdensome. It wasn't because the railroad was built that people started to go somewhere. The railroad, which split into two sides with the lowered supports and ran all the way to the southern coast and the Military Demarcation Line, splits again and crosses the Han River Bridge to head toward Incheon and Suwon. In front of my feet that are still on the platform, the railroad is tenacious, long, and dark, just like hope has always been. The fact that the railroad is a railroad means that we have not yet given up the hope that we will meet again sometime in the long, long, distant future. The fact that the road is so long, anytime, anywhere, means that the departure before that was so desperate. The meeting was prepared before the road. It came close to my ankles that had not yet left, and before I knew it, the railroad became a series of whip marks on my chest. // #KimJeongHwan #Railroad #Ogle #Ogle_Today'sWriting #EunYeongSeon #Reading #Recitation #PoetryRecitation #PoetryRecitation #HealingReading #HealingRecitation #poem #poems #poetry #korea #korean #koreanpoetry