Disclaimer - I do not own Sakon and Ukon. It just happens to be one of my all time favorite mangas/animes.
Cherry Blossoms
We travel together down the road
Not picking up any new burden or load
We sit there waiting for nothing
We stand there wanting for nothing
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
Together we tell the stories of old
Which after time have been left to mold
By those of my generation
Who scorn them without hesitation
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
The path we have chosen
It is becoming more forsaken
For who now wants the sight
Of myself left, and you right
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
Nor of any of our kindred
Our kind they forbid
To be anything but abnormal
Trying to make us feel small
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
But life, it makes things different
For any of the messages they sent
Were not written in our script
For none of them are truly writ
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
They could never foreseen
The luck and fortune so keen
Nor the tragedy so following
Yet so for us to be fixing
Watching the Cherry Blossoms Fall
You and I, we are left and right
Our path, it has always been right
Through turmoils we've made
Through time somewhat fade
Author's Note - To fully understand the poem, the more you know about Sakon and Ukon, the more it helps. But hopefully not to enjoy it. Some background info for those who know nothing about the series, Sakon is a young man from the old Japanese puppeteer families. Thus he has Ukon which he carries on his right had at all times. He had Ukon since he was a child and other children always made fun of him. The idea of the cherry blossoms comes from the fact I've seen cherry blossoms in the Anime intro and they are mentioned in one of the stories Ukon tells as they travel. Sakon's name means left, while Ukon's means right.