(Love Blossoms by Shima Renzou)
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Plum blossoms fall from the sky.
They land gently on your milky white thighs.
My days spent preoccupied with thoughts
of the gap between your knee socks and maroon skirt.
I drift away staring at the sky.
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I wonder when our love will bloom.
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Perhaps if I brought all the petals one by one to you.
I would pick them from the temple.
I would pick them from the shrine.
I would pick them from the darkest room.
I would even pick them from that all white room.
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Do you remember that all white room?
I do.
I know you do too.
The price for that room will be for me to be forever in servitude to you.
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I wonder when our love will bloom.
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I close my eyes and block out the clouds that threaten to keep me from you.
I see you.
I see you as the holy women.
I see you as the angry one.
I see you with a doll in your hand.
I saw you with tears in your eyes.
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I reach my hands out towards the sky.
I see you clearly.
You're underneath me.
My legs in between yours.
I pick the plum blossoms from your eyes.
I let you see me.
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I pick the blossoms from your twin tied hair.
I pick the blossoms from your dotted brows.
I pick the blossoms from your flowing chest.
I pick the blossoms from that teasing gap.
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I let my hands slide up your thighs.
I let your hands slide up my throat.
I could kill you
and you could kill me.
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My love, but how sweet death can be!
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I wonder when our love will bloom.
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Early in the morning, on top a roof, sits Shima Renzou. He sits quietly. He sits still. His eyes trained on a small girl running around a spacious garden. She runs around cheerfully with joy in her eyes, happily humming as she waters her plants. From his point of view, she seems very very happy and it makes him frown.
Then after he does so, he hears the girl's mother coming into the garden. He retreats farther back onto the roof, so as to keep out of sight. They can't see him, but he can see them. He sees the young girl put down her watering can and run to hug her mother's leg. Her smile has grown and Shima's frown has deepened.
They disappear into the house and Shima hops down from the roof. He walks casually out past the front gate. It reads Takara.
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