About this work
The speaker hopes to face an unknown future with the beloved, but encounters a guarded presence and a heart imagined as ice. Hope persists alongside intimate questions about the source of that distance.
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日本語原文 Japanese original
まだ見ぬ景色を貴方とみたい
まだ来ない未来を貴方とみたい
貴方と共に歩みたい
まだわからない事に
不安より希望を持ちたい
貴方には近づきがたいオーラがある
かたくなな心のあらわれ？
どうしてそんなに心を閉ざすの？
お心が氷になるって
今の奥さまのせい？
それとも、私の？
いつか二人で笑いながら
まだ見ぬ景色を一緒にみたいと思っているのに…
English translation 英訳
AI-assisted English translation. The Japanese original remains authoritative.
I want to see a landscape yet unseen with you.
I want to see a future yet to come with you.
I want to walk beside you.
Before what is still unknown,
I want to choose hope over fear.
There is an aura around you
that makes you hard to approach.
Is it the sign of a stubborn heart?
Why do you close your heart so tightly?
Who turned your heart to ice—
your wife now?
Or me?
Someday, laughing together,
I want us to see that landscape yet unseen...
Original wording, author credits, notes and source materials are preserved there.