Bonsai of Thought: Two Hundred Twenty-Three

1) : Why aren't you holding anyone's hand yet?
: I'll hold the hand of someone who cannot do without me.

2) : Do you see something both ugly and beautiful at once?
: Yes, waiting without expectation.

3) : Why do talk shows ask guests such questions that conscience should have forbidden even uttering?
: People have much knowledge now, only conscience remains unconscious.

4) You listen to music, watch movies, read books and write.
And I listen to you, watch you, read you and write only you.

5) I'm so far away. I was wondering, would you take a little care of yourself for my sake?

6) I don't know how to swim, I told you that before.
Then why did you throw me into the water?
Now I'm drowning inside you.
Won't you save me?

7) : Why do men themselves laugh first at news of male abuse?
: People still haven't learned to believe that rich people and men can have any suffering in society.

8) : If women stood as strength beside women, forgetting envy to become friends with each other?
: When was this world ever without war?

9) : Whose blood is the reddest?
: Those who are promised a lifetime of companionship, only to have their hand let go midway.

10) : What's this, you've gone and got married I see! Head full of vermillion. Wow, how beautiful you look!
: Yes, you saw the vermillion. Where did you see the loneliness?

11) : Suddenly you're feeding sweets to everyone. What's the good news?
: I've found my person.

12) : I'm terribly afraid.
  : Afraid of what? Of losing me?
  : I've died so many times in that fear. Now you're not here. But another fear has come. How is it possible to touch anyone else but you? That fear.


13) : There's only one life, time is short, so live in the present.
: Do you understand what living means?


14)  : One day you'll see, I'll disappear.
  : As if I'd let you be lost!

15) : Will you pray for me a little?
  : What shall I ask for in prayer?
  : Let me have a person of my own, so I can shout before the world...they're only mine...they're only mine.

16)  : My mind won't focus on office work at all. I even got scolded by my boss for making mistakes.
Ugh, I feel like just standing in the kitchen and watching you.
: Today I burned the curry right before my eyes on the stove. I was composing poetry about you in my mind.
Mother came and gave me an earful.

17) : Father, the market bag is so heavy. Doesn't it trouble you to walk all this way?
: This is just a market bag, it's nothing compared to running a household.

18) As people age, friends who address them as 'you' also keep diminishing.

19) : You're such an inhuman being, how do you associate with monsters and demons? Won't they harm you? Yet again I see them laying out mats and arranging food, waiting for you.
: I alone know their stories of when they were human, I alone understand their pain. They won't do anything to me.

20) : Why are you sitting there playing the villain?
: If I tried to be the hero, the rest would have to become villains, so.