Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Thirty-Four

1. On this moonlit night
with every lamp in the house ablaze
...you search for me!

2. I'm heading back;
leaving behind
the twin steam of two coffee cups.

3. No one wants opinions anymore;
instead they want to know
who's willing to be murdered first!

4. One night's lifetime,
a lifetime's night!

5. Watching clouds
caught against the mountainside,
I wondered — does the sky too
descend so low!

6. Scratching the wound,
stirring up blood —
even if relief comes,
what good is that?

7. Come, let's set aside
all our tasks today
and drift away
ourselves...

8. Come back!
No one else
can bear me anymore!

9. Where will you run
to escape
the punishment for good deeds!

10. Even the wren can teach
a flock of eagles
how to hold
in the palm of your hand!

11. What's urgent for you
is just puffed rice for me!

12. Does winter rain
not speak of forgetting
the soft sunshine of December!?

13. How can you hope to receive
from one
to whom you've never given anything!?

14. Each birthday,
an empty day.

15. Just as I was praising your teeth
you bit me like that?

16. No need for alarms.
Poor folk sleep little.

17. When you must breathe
the scent of faded roses
through a broken nose,
what's left to grieve?

18. If haters and the jobless
had so much shame, how would they survive!

19. There — that death!
That's where life is!

20. On the same road sorrow came,
even dressed as a beggar there
you think yourself happy!
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