In her coming, she crashed through my eternal slumber, in her going she walked all over my heart.
As the gentle spring wind plays with the daisies she played with my heart – touching me, bending me to her will. With her bewitching magic she bloomed a thousand flowers. Yes, she walked all over my heart like the spring wind…
One day she melted away, without even a word of farewell. She left no address, no proof of her ever being. She looked back once, before she faded away – what song had she sung to me?
Ah, but she is gone now, and I sit alone in this garden of flowers she had bloomed for me. She floated away like the ocean waves; maybe she has journeyed on to the land of moonbeams – like Kaguyahime. And wherever she has stopped by, she has left the imprint of her sweet smile.
Did she call out to me, out of the corner of her eyes? But how will I follow her? How will I cross the distance between the present and the future?
Her gentle touch played on the eyes of the moon, and brought enchanted sleep; in my heart it swung the branches of cherry, stirring up a flurry of petals. She glided over my garden, whispered something in the ears of the budding blossoms. The aroma of the flowers, ensnared by her spell, followed her footsteps…their petals wilted in the heat wave of my burning sighs.
Now my heart is never at peace, my eyes are ever sleepless, ever searching – which route did she follow? Where did she go? Because in her going she has walked all over my heart, like the gentle spring wind…
* Kashinfuu means the fragrant spring wind that brings the tidings of flowers.
* This was originally submitted to Inuyasha Issekiwa contest. It won second position.