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Wordplay turns trauma into a tiger and a horse, allowing a poem about hidden pain to imagine a more forgiving inner landscape. This English version is an editorial translation for access; the Japanese text remains available alongside it for comparison.
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日本語原文 Japanese original
世間知らずのお嬢様と人はいう
否定しない
見た通りでいい
本当の私は、私しか知らない
この苦しみは私だけのトラウマ
心の傷の深さは変わらないけれど
時の経過が和らげていった
心の奥に鍵がかかっているの
で、その奥には、寅と馬が住んでいるわ。
私、今日も上手く笑えた
でも心の瞳はいつだって泣いてるの
声にならない心のSOS
当てのないSOS
自分を救うのは、自分だった
自分を守るのも、自分だったのに
世の中には理不尽なことが起きる
でも腐れない、腐っても救われはしない
どうにかして自分に折り合いをつける。
心の奥に寅と馬を放牧して全て受け止めた
自分を許すこと
許せない事を手放そう
人は人を裁くことは難しい
相手を責めたら私も同じような人になる
自分なら変われる
悲しみを知る者は強くなれる
いつか心の草原には寅と馬が仲良く暮らす
私のトラウマは自由な心の草原に帰る
トラウマは・・・寅と馬。
English translation 英訳
AI-assisted English translation. The Japanese original remains authoritative.
They call her the naive young lady, one who knows nothing of the world.
Do not deny it.
It's fine as it is, just as you see it.
The real me is known only to me.
This pain is my only trauma.
The depth of the wound in my heart does not change, but time has softened it.
The key is locked deep within my heart.
And inside that key, there live the tiger and the horse.
I smiled well today, too.
But my heart's eyes have always been crying.
A silent SOS from the heart.
An SOS with no hope of being answered.
It was myself who had to save myself.
It was myself who had to protect myself.
Yet the world is full of unreasonable things.
But even if it rots, it cannot be saved.
Somehow, I have to make peace with myself.
I have let the tiger and the horse graze in the depths of my heart, taking everything in.
To forgive myself.
To let go of what I cannot forgive.
It is hard for people to judge others.
If I blame the other person, I myself become the same kind of person.
If I were to change, I could change myself.
Those who know sorrow become strong.
Someday, the tiger and the horse will live peacefully on the heart's grassland.
My trauma returns to the free grassland of the heart.
My trauma... is the tiger and the horse.
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