Once I wrote a thing
I thought very beautiful.
I read it later.

Did not understand.
All its meaning was hidden
From me and others.

The virtue of verse
Is that its meaning may be
Completely hidden.

God seems to like it,
Almost always, done that way.
He watches it all

From above. I saw
Also, and sung about it,
And no one heard me,

And no one sang back.
I listened very closely,
And I heard nothing.

I read it again
Much later; and finally,
I understood it.