Memories

And the light wanes further

As darkness wins the battle

Though my hopes fade with the light

Still I wait for you.


The day had waxed noon and

I saw you

Darkness invading my light

Lighting on the precipice,

Auburn streak followed by yellow and grey.


That day, the smile on your face,

Your lightly crescendoing laugh cutting the silence

Lit my day.


I remember how afterwards

We returned home

Ninmu kanryou; I was pleased.


Yet I digress, for

What does it matter anymore?

I have always known

That at last I would take this road

And that auburn streak I saw that day

Disappeared ages ago.

I am now-

Surrounded by my ghosts and demons

In the abyss of my home

A/N: This is the first remotely romantic thing I've written. I have NO idea what came over me to write this...I blame The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot; I will never be able to look at my writing the same way after having read that poem... I'm such a terrible author in comparison...
The only reason it's being posted is because I really don't have enough things in here, as well as at the remonstrations of a friend of mine who happened to like it. If you have any ideas as to how to improve it, please feel free to suggest them.

Oh, and the two lines, "I have always known/That at last I would take this road" come from the Japanese poet Ariwara noNarihira, from the book One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth, a book of old Japanese poetry translated into English. The poem itself should be in the public domain; it was published hundreds of years ago.