Seeking traces of the dried sea,
I imagine a shore I’ve yet to see.
“If my heart was to have remain trapped,
I could have never known of this pain.”
What wonderful words someone once said.

Without even waiting for daybreak, we swam beyond the end.
The song of insects was restless.
A memory I heard together with you.
Simply joining hands,
Even in an incomplete color… or in a far-off country…
This dream was born from a momentary chapter.
So let us go on to embrace it.

We can’t remain like children forever,
Oblivious to knowledge
When someday we’ll all melt away,
Becoming a part of this world.

Like a tiny cocoon,
We roll into a ball, feeling reassured.
Praying for nothing
But sleep…

We’re amidst time and an abandoned garden that will eventually collapse.
With no way to stop it, I’ll simply live in this moment with you.
Grasping each others’ hands tightly,
We can choose any door we please.
With determined eyes, we look onward. We smile.
That image of us is everything.

“Listen closely. I can hear the tide…”

乾いた海の跡　望んで
まだ見ぬ対岸を描く
囚われの心のままなら
こんな傷みも知らずにいた
美しい詞を告げたひと

夜明けも待たずに
果てのその先を泳ぐ　虫の唄
眠らず君と聞いた記憶
手を　ただ結んで
半色でも　遠い国でも
短い一章に生まれた夢を
抱きしめに行こう

僕ら何も知らない
こどものままいられない
そしていつかは溶けゆく
世界の一部へと

小さな繭のよう
まるくなって安心して
眠りたい　それだけの
祈りを…

やがて崩れゆく時と　廃園の中で
とめようもなくただ君といま生きよう
手をかたく結んで
どんな扉を選んでもいい
まっすぐな瞳で見つめる　ほほ笑む
その姿がすべて

「耳をすまして。潮騒がきこえる」