To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?

Anticipation Generic butterflies swarm Twists, knots, fluttering They find no golden nectar Only number two pencils

A natural fog Too tired to remember Dowsing memories Broken alarm clock weeping Woe be to his faint tick, tock

愛の歌 空に隠れた それなのに この忘れない 音、まだ響く

Scattering shy leaves Skittering down two by two In Fall’s breeze they sink Forming such a golden path Blind-folded hearts can follow

I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow

Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens

Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink

A midst cold classrooms Seemingly short dialect Audio-connect Slowly frozen hearts will drip As conversations bubble

Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest

Distractions of youth Parade like bright spring flowers Always on the mind Entangling my weak heart To the land of mud and ice

A blank white tablet Fuzzy buzzing silences Click, click, click, and yet That single black divider keeps Blinking an endless cycle

Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them

Flickering between The realms of light and shadow Why not close the shades? Sleep’s alluring charm welcomes Despite such early hours!

To grasp at the root This longing for the seasons Hidden deep, deep down To say it’s just “Natural,” Would only scratch the leaf-tops