(2013)
Written for a great friend of mine.
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My Grandfather’s last dream In a deep sea of white, heavy thun… Until a peaceful respite blinks What will it bring? Will the rain… With their piercing showers, will…
Busy decisions Like an endless moon cycle Such a waxing life
愛の歌 空に隠れた それなのに この忘れない 音、まだ響く
A stone for a head A dauntingly fragile nose Sudden convulsions To lay my head down in peace My vestigial heart begs
Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them
Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name
A sudden rain flux A faintly calling whisper To turn off eyelids Yet I cannot shake my dream For just another hour
Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink
Archaic toiling Through endless character streams To drown deeper still Beneath black and white waters Until I breathe symbolly
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Sweet little black box From metalic elogy Sleep now, sing no more
Why does music speak Without line or threads of time We plug ourselves in Forming an echo cocoon Never wanting to come out
A natural fog Too tired to remember Dowsing memories Broken alarm clock weeping Woe be to his faint tick, tock
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
No words escape me The sun will rise tomorrow Or so I am told
