We need not understand emotions
We must feel them

We need not understand pigs
We must eat them

We need not understand flowers
We must smell them

We need not understand the bird
Let her be lonely -
Don't make a branch for it with your heart
Don't drink her air with your breathing
The air from beneath her wing...

We need not, mainly, understand -
What we need is to be;
Or even more, to have been
Yes, above all, to have been...