Endless Domestic Reverie

If in the station square, love racing from the opposite direction embraces you in the pull of evening's gentle, scattered breeze,
If the melancholy baul, hearing monsoon songs on his journey home through sky-paths, sends invitations from his golden-sunlit house where he makes patterned rice cakes,
If a lost traveler, refusing the last train home, sits weaving threads of connection in dust's wounded pride, lodging complaints,
If the daughter of the house, floating away her sorrows in broken-hearted, broken time, declares... she will not return home in the deep night,
If breaking through all hesitation, some rosy-minded dove-messenger comes and openly says that truly, no one belongs to her,
If once, some feather of a heart-peacock cloud comes to teach a young lover to say—I love you,
If somehow, with moon-madness on her face, the beloved comes to announce—I have fallen in love,
Then could you not... breaking down the sealed door of your harsh heart—
stop the momentum of that love rushing from the opposite direction in the station square and embrace that very love?
Could you not honor the melancholy baul's invitation and set off toward the house of sunlight?
Could you not return home on the last train, breaking the wind's wounded pride and finding the traveler's lost path?
Could you not seek out broken-hearted, broken time to anchor joys back at the shore, bring the daughter home in the deep night and mend her broken heart?
Could you not become that someone for the rose-minded dove-messenger who has broken through all hesitation?
Could you not become the response to that young lover's "I love you"?
Could you not be the lover-man in the very first chapter of the beloved's "I have fallen in love" novel?
Could you not... truly?
Surely you can! You must be able to!

Today—
Eternity waits, watching the path.
Doubt has stopped all motion.
The earth floats in emptiness.
Mother Earth gazes in wonder.

All the love-filled springs have paused, waiting for you.
The entire mortal world stands still, ready to take pride in your mastery.
You must be able to! Surely you can!