English text from the original publication
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Ambulance rattling clattering in the sleety dark
Mom & Dad passed away far long, long ago
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Japan surrendered, Mom & Dad crying over the announce
Me infant alone in paddy field now occupied unknown
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Balmy weather with rabbitear iris so Romantic
Let me sign with sleeve to the old bygone lives
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Cherry blossoms gone with repentance
Time currents flew away like a criminal, I hate
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Young days seeking for the poetic stanza
Where away those days getting off the train
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Big Quake on the new year day souls heaven in number
Men are mortal but deep sorrow with no rescue
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Heaven says your home is ephemeral and fragile
But I say my bed quilt is soft and warm
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Young Generations! With no knowledge on the passed days
How can we talk our agony, anguished cry, dismay and anger
9
Meriken or American Big shout for baseball game
Reminds us but feeing passed of Samurai’s battle field
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Let’s wait forth coming August, when Beer tastes best
That old friend passed away, said a postcard
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You and me gazing at each other
Just that moment romance was born in tender spring
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“Terrific!” When you said coming back to life
Like a shining star, though an old, forgotten scarf
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Biting strawberries torrents of flushing blood
With you I taste the joy of living
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Surrounding the big God’s tree
Praying Him May your life be forever
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Not caressing the slender, Vinus skin
You lied yourself sleeping softly with loneliness
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Under the agony of physical condition
You managed to come to see me in secret
The night I found your profound love
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Holding hands like a bridge of life
Giving my blood to you sick in bed
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Every time I see the door open waiting for you
The time felt very slow and reluctant
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Over the phone I hear your voice
Calling your wife in a domestic life
So painful I cannot be your wife
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Recalling your doggie your eyes softened
You became a family papa unknown to me
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Peeling off the eye pad found a white wall
In my eye shining with
So many glaring sun lights
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One star in the frozen night
My uncle's unforgettable smile
still shining far away
23
Late autumn wind
Leaves fall on silence
shadowing my path
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On a late fall road
fallen acorns
their fate feels like mine
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Moonlit autumn night
Insects sing
softening my longing for home
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At the old iron bar
where the flats used to be
Sunflowers seen upside down
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Grieving life’s fragility
looking up in sorrow
the moon leans softly in the sky
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The back of my friend
on the way to pick up his father, now a child
with his late mother’s, softly overlaps
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Praying at the shrine
for my sick friend’s recovery
the gentle scent of plum blossoms embraces everything
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At my hometown station
snow drifting in silence
on the final day of the year
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