A Platonist’s Reply to Mei Yaochen’s Sorrow

Mei Yaochen:

“But no one

Has ever come

Back from the

Underground Springs.”

Why are they, and rightly,

Called the Springs

If nowhere they go?

That’s why I believe

That the Springs are true

And Springs for real.

And what makes

Mei Yaochen

Or anyone believe

That from nowhere

We came to a life,

That even now

We’re not returned

That there’s a place

Or something

That doesn’t give (out)

Anything it has

Even though

We are and myriads

Of other beings past

Our own and

Everyone else’s counting

And that if there are

At least two points,

Partial and discreet,

There’s only one way

The part in-between is crossed?