Verse 4 • The Way is like an empty pot...

The Way is like an empty pot,
Inexhaustibly full,
Bottomless,
Ancestor to the world.
It blunts the sharpness,
Unties the knots,
Softens the glare,
Settles the dust.
It is deep water, eternal, still.
I do not know whose child it is.
It appears to have existed before creation.