Bitter Snow
(From Seto to Jou)
I love you so much
And the sweetest joy I've ever known
I believed must be condemned to the freezing snow-
Laid to rest
Beneath layer on layer of soft white stuff
Compounding with its weight
A pain I would live with all my life
Instead of you.
All that I could do was let you go
On your own path alone.
Your freedom was to be
My one great gift to you.
Here in winter,
Snow foretold in skies of gray,
Every self-fulfilling prophecy I have made
Must be melted away-
The greatest gift I can give to you
Is that you never have to be alone.
My sweetest joy will live on heights
Above the bitter snow.