1.All this time, I, and we,
2.Have been living in a world alone.
3.Each time we gently touch a neighboring world,
4.We come to realize,
5.We remember.6.
7.When we were young,
8.We were still protected by innocence.
9.Just calling each other’s names,
10.And making promises for tomorrow,
11.Made us believe the world was one.12.
13.Not understanding each other,
14.Not forgiving each other,
15.Those things increased, one by one.
16.Each time that happened,
17.I even stopped expecting
18.That we could believe in one another.19.
20.All this time, I, and we,
21.Have been living in separate worlds.
22.Just when I thought we were close,
23.We would drift apart again.
24.And every time that happened,
25.I came to realize the loneliness of being alone.
26.But even so, I, and we,
27.Still seek someone else,
28.Because we are not yet grown-up enough
29.To simply accept
30.Loneliness as it is
31.And live with it.32.
33.At the back of the classroom,
34.Different-colored pictures of the same landscape were hung.
35.None of us drew the same thing,
36.None of our pictures lined up perfectly without a single gap,
37.And yet we shared the same scene.38.
39.Measuring how far we are
40.From the ideals we envision,
41.That kind of self-centeredness, masked as love,
42.Is nothing more than endless, unreasonable demands.
43.The more we try to confirm it,
44.The more selfish we become in our longing,
45.And the more we lose, the more timid we become.46.
47.I don’t want anything more than what I have now,
48.So don’t go any further away.
49.I convinced myself that keeping this ambiguous distance
50.Was what it meant to grow up.51.
52.I, I,
53.Am just running away from being hurt,
54.But in truth,
55.Even now,
56.I still want to believe.57.
58.All this time, I, and we,
59.Have been living in separate worlds.
60.So we hold hands,
61.And exchange words,
62.To deceive ourselves into thinking,
63.That we are not alone.
64.Someday, someday,
65.If we could embrace this immature loneliness,
66.And the sadness and pain we’ve come to know,
67.And become kinder,
68.If we could learn to trust people…69.
70.All this time, both you and I,
71.Everyone is alone.
72.But when our hearts,
73.Which longed to understand one another,
74.Finally touched,
75.For a brief moment, this world seemed like one.
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