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What little difference there is between "yes" and "nay".
"Good" and "bad" — can you really define the difference?
Am I supposed to worry about the distinctions other make?
If I do, there is no end to worry!
Before the moon has waxed to its full limit
everybody is very happy like they are partaking at a great feast
or climbing to the sightseeing platform in springtime.
Alone, I remain unmoving, showing no signs,
an infant who has't yet smiled.
I am a drifter in this world claiming no particular place as home.
Most people have plenty to spare; I remain deficient, a fool, a simpleton!
Wordly people want to be dazzlingly bright; I alone seem dim.
Wordly people make clear distinctions; I alone lack their certainties.
I drift with the currents, blow with the winds, anchorless!
Most people have purpose-driven lives, but I am untrainable and unrefined!
This is why I am different from others:
I live by the nourishment of the Great Mother.