Seeed - "Beautiful"

Beauty

 

You shouldn’t hide
From what we are
A pair of souls
One heart, one smile
One life

"Urma - All Wrong"

These letters

are my letters

to you.

"Ever since my house burnt down, I see the moon more clearly..."

"I gazed upon all the Edens that have fallen in me, I saw Edens that I had held in my hands but let go, I saw promises I did not keep, pains I did not throw, wounds I did not heal, tears I did not share.
I saw deaths I did not mourn, prayers I did not answer, doors I did not open, doors I did not close, lovers I left behind, and dreams I did not live.

I saw all that was offered to me that I could not accept.
I saw the letters I wished for but never received.
I saw all that could have been but never will be. "

.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solitude

On a Night As Long

On a night as long 

As the long, drooping tail on

The copper pheasant

 Dwelling in the steep mountains,

 Am I, too,

 meant to sleep alone?

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Loving You,

 Loving you, my heart may shatter into a thousand pieces, 

but not one piece will be lost.

Izumi Shikibu

Plum Trees Blooming Near The Stream

Each spring it seems I
shall confuse reflections in
the flowing stream with
flowers and again I’ll drench
my sleeves seeking to pluck those boughs

Lady Ise

Coolness

Coolness--
the sound of the bell
as it leaves the bell.  

Yosa Buson