Repetition

This is a video from twenty years ago.

Back then, my teacher taught us with these words:
“You too will understand, if you repeat it for about twenty years.”

Twenty years have passed, and now I pass those words on to my juniors.

Repeating it, again and again, without end,
I think I am beginning, little by little,
to understand what my teacher was trying to teach.

Still, I fall short, and it frustrates me.

And yet,
because I fall short, I can be grateful for being filled,
and that I can be grateful for this —
for that, too, I am simply grateful…