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.
