Oceans by Juan Ramon Jimenez

I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
                    	And nothing
happens! Nothing... Silence... Waves...

    –Nothing happens?  Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?


~ from The Winged Energy of Delight, Selected Translations, 
edited by Robert Bly (Perennial, HarperCollins, 2005)