Forgetting to go home

Since middle age I've been

A most enthusiastic Buddhist

Now that I'm old I’ve settled

Here in the mountain country

Sometimes I get so happy

I have to go off by myself

There are marvelous places

I alone know about

I climb

To the source of a stream

And sit

To watch the rising mists

Sometimes I come across

An old man in the woods

We talk and laugh

And forget to go home.

~ Wang Wei