Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thought: Two Hundred Nine

1. It has been so long
since we last met.
Yet even today, upon waking,
you are the first thought that comes to me.

2. All my words
that lack you
are nothing but noise.

3. Because you are not beside me,
the air grows heavy.
Living becomes difficult...
breathing becomes difficult...

4. I listen carefully
to every voice
with this hope...
that it might match yours!

5. Now I understand,
all the wrongs of that day
were yours.
Yet even today
all my tenderness
centers around you alone.

6. One day, will you sit face to face
and share a cup of tea?

7. It has been many days
since I last spoke your name.
Yet except for your name alone,
this heart speaks of nothing else.

8. You had left
without giving me a chance to say goodbye.

9. The silence you left behind—
even today, only that silence
is what I hear.

10. The wounds of betrayal
never completely
heal.

11. If ever it happens
that you cannot find shelter anywhere,
that day, come to these arms of mine.

12. There is no love within me.
What exists is merely the greed for peace.

13. Pursue not others,
but yourself.

14. Because I respect your work,
I will not give you the opportunity
to disrespect mine.

15. The less work one has,
the more gossip fills one's mouth.

16. Where I have gained so much,
why does the heart weep so
when I lose a little?

17. If you speak wrongly,
I will get up and leave mid-conversation.
Peace is most important to me.

18. What has not happened in one's life—
managing it
may well seem easy to them.

19. Only the one who loses
understands.
The one who doesn't lose
thinks it's a burden.

20. To weep
sometimes
is not weakness—
it takes courage.
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