Discovering the World

All people were born
By the blue sea.
All fathers
Are bent over their looms
Weaving the texture
Their children proceed.
All children run from the chatter of the loom
To watch on the coast of the blue sea,
With their toes in the water,
Ships vanishing into the horizon.
Because children must run there
And ships must vanish there,
And their toes must get wet.
And everyone gets under way
As everyone must set off.
Everyone
Some for the sake of all,
A few for the sake of many,
Each for their own good.
Because everyone should discover their own world.
(Jaan Kross)

Listener supported: O Le Le (Jurassic 5 & Ozomatli)