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RenboⅡ
Love seen from afar is comical.
It’s like listening to a fast-paced, upbeat, popular love song.
It’s as comical and dramatic as Don Quixote on his donkey brandishing his long spear and charging towards a windmill. Can you catch it? What are you looking for? You want to tease him.
The people involved are crazy, serious, and there are even passionate loves where they don’t mind dying. Even such love, when seen from afar, is like watching a drama of life in a play, and is something that happens on the other side of the stage. But it makes you nervous, your heart beats fast, and you feel affection for them.
On a day off, my daughter goes out saying she has something to do in Yokohama. Ignoring her cheerful behavior, I send her off with a brusque “Have a nice trip.”
As I glance at the young couple hugging each other in the park, I wonder what kind of life awaits them from now on, and think about a life I have no connection with.
I look at my distant love as if listening to a story from long ago.
Drown in it, sing it, rejoice in it. Be proud and excited.
Time waits for no one, time passes, time is now, the irreplaceable now.
The child is twenty years old, her black hair flowing down her comb, how beautiful is this proud spring.
Yosano Akiko