‘Like a Sketch in the Morning’ — Daily Poems and Essays by JIYUCHO Owner Koyama
今朝の落書き
オーナー小山が日々書く詩やエッセイ
考え事、悩み事の言葉たち
方光
Standing beside the sea
I sneeze and change the direction of the wind
I spread both arms wide and push aside the thunderclouds
The god of the forest watches from among the trees and laughs
another strange fellow has been born and come along
swaying, speaking to the sunlight through the leaves
When I dip my feet into the sound of waves
I hear memories
Hermit crabs swim through freedom
friends leave and I become an ember
I ask, in the brief interval when meaning changes
whether the smiles I bathe in every day are true
about the passion for a half-built dream
Where will we drift to from here
a seagull flies by with a sidelong glance, knowing
the dozing blue sky slips into summer without noticing
paying no heed to a heart in anguish
The words we exchanged in the passenger seat are still here
if we go on living, they will shine and take flight again
As though crying out that merely yearning for the lights of youth
is so boring one could die
I look into the eyes of someone endlessly piling joke upon joke
The sun sets and rises again
sets and tells me again the weight of having reached today
The waves speak
the sunlight asks
the green says
the wind appeals
the meaning of my having arrived here
The scenes these eyes have seen speak
the sounds these ears have heard ask
the things this skin has touched say
the food that has filled this mouth appeals
the meaning of your having arrived here
Spring eventually sheds great drops of tears
summer rages, scorching every patch of skin
autumn looks this way with a face that has lost interest
winter cherishes me with its chilled body
With trembling hands
relying on a small flame
I feed a new day to the fire and warm myself
Carrying a question I will never finish answering
entrusting myself to the seasons that will keep turning
feeling the colours flowing past
I smile while holding that sadness
Beyond words
beyond myself
I bring my hands together
and pray to a wholesome light
The sky, having let go of everything, smiles
Thank you for reading again today. Perhaps we are always on our way somewhere other than here.
