1.After finishing my errands before noon,
2.I cram my body into a bus and am aimlessly swayed.
3.The bus makes a gentle, large curve,
4.Turning left as if tracing the corner of the hospital.5.
6.A balloon sways at the crosswalk, a bike waits with a yawn.
7.The scene outside the window passes by like a movie I never knew the beginning of.
8.The trees lining the street block the sun, letting light spill through in just the right way,
9.The chosen little glimmers dance on my shoulder.10.
11.It felt like a familiar song,
12.I wonder if I could try a little harder.13.
14.When I decided to be okay, I somehow felt like I would be okay,
15.But I know it’s just like a painkiller.
16.As long as I live by running away from feeling or thinking,
17.I’ll never be able to fully repair myself.18.
19.Without really being able to smile, I connect yesterday to today, then to tomorrow,
20.Supporting my ambiguous self as I cross the night.
21.The trees lining the street block the sun, the light reaching me chipped and fragmented,
22.The small, fleeting glimmers dance on my shoulder.23.
24.It felt like a familiar song,
25.It felt like someone’s tears.26.
27.I wonder if I could try a little harder,
28.It felt like a familiar song.29.
30.In the everyday life that inevitably comes,
31.I can’t even manage to nod in agreement.
32.I end up avoiding
33.Even the thought of the person I want to see.34.
35.The words that won’t disappear from my heart,
36.Unchanging, unlike anything else,
37.A steel stake that will pierce me until I die,
38.My heart keeps working without stopping.
Translated by:
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