Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens

I guess it’s about that time again time for another pointless relapse Time, like a dusty album record Spinning, around and around on end I want the needle to break or veer…

Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink

Lofting lazily Enter murky depths of feel Quivering eyelids Two heavy from the weight of The thoughts that lead me astray

No words escape me The sun will rise tomorrow Or so I am told

To grasp at the root This longing for the seasons Hidden deep, deep down To say it’s just “Natural,” Would only scratch the leaf-tops

Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them

Is there something dark? Dark, dark, deep down inside me Something that keeps me Away from the center ring A divergent path indeed

Foggy morning sky Your veil remains untouched by The flags of Autumn How cruel of you to kidnap Such keen keepsakes of your kin

Distractions of youth Parade like bright spring flowers Always on the mind Entangling my weak heart To the land of mud and ice

To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?

初めては いつも苦しい 二回には?

Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths

A sudden rain flux A faintly calling whisper To turn off eyelids Yet I cannot shake my dream For just another hour