Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thought: One Hundred Seventy-Seven

1. Make me your "nothing much"—
that thing you say every time
when people ask you,
"What are you thinking?"

2. To fall in love with someone
means finding beauty even in all their ugliness.

3. Girl, to calm your restless heart,
don't even by mistake go to the one
you love unrequitedly.

4. Either cry out in love,
or fall silent in hurt pride.

5. Perhaps he isn't selfish,
he's genuinely busy.
Or it could be
he isn't busy at all—
he's simply being polite.

6. : Do you have a minute for me?
: What would I have to do to give you more?

7. Fine, so this work of mine is worthless!
But you never mention that other work of mine—
the one that came in handy for you!

8. What I've left behind
calls out to me,
but I call back even more.
This is what we call pain.

9. Wanting what isn't mine—
that's called envy.
What I feel for you
isn't envy, it's a sense of entitlement.

10. The way it feels to unfold a new book—
that's exactly how it feels each time I unveil you.
The scent of a new book and the scent of familiar you—they're one and the same!

11. I didn't fall in love with you
because I fell for your eyes.
I fell for your eyes
because I had already fallen in love with you.

12. Women are like pure gold—
hearts burn outside the kitchen,
hands burn inside it.

13. Hold me close until
my scent becomes like your scent.

14. A girl wants someone
who will love her deeply.
But she gets someone
whom she loves deeply, one-sidedly.

15. Thinking of you, thinking of you,
clutching my pillow close,
eventually
I fall asleep.

16. Yes, it's true
I act crazy.
Still, I'm happy, because
I don't pretend.
17. When I listen to you and stay quiet,
it doesn't mean
I accept everything you say.
I love listening to you.

18. By loving
not you,
but only unemployment is what I gained.

19. My present
surrounded by your memories.

20. Until you physically push them out the door,
many people don't realize
they're bothering you.
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