Joseon Poem by Ronald Chapman

I don't know what to do?
How can I feel your earth below my feet again,
After a thousand years of being alone?
Without disobeying the wishes of my family? 


How can I love you?

How can an old Soul travel to a young Miracle?
How can I touch a re-born Seoul?



My only way to love you.


Is to show the world, 


How beautiful you are, 


How a Phoenix has risen,
From the ashes of war.


Is love worth taking the chance?
A chance of dying before I can ever return home,
My home of a thousand years, Joseon!

The home that I was cursed to remember forever,
An impossible love that I can never say goodbye to,
A Love that will last for eternity.