Reflections in Miniature: Fifty-Eight

1. When trying to make someone talk
requires you to keep asking,
'How are you?'—
it's better to stop.

2. Someone who doesn't even deserve your attention
feels like they've touched heaven when you glance their way!

3. All these wounds. All this weeping.
The map of my life.

4. Erase those parts of memory
that never understood your worth.

5. There are many sorrows
that belong only to you.
No one knows, yet you know—
it's these very sorrows that have kept you alive!

6. We live only in moments.
This moment, that moment...even the non-moment!

7. The moon and I.
Together we search for a lost world.

8. You were a cold spring.
Color on the surface, frost within.

9. As time passes,
sorrow hides deeper.
Sorrow is my plea—
no one sees it.

10. Your memory outlasts you.
That's why my waiting is for you alone!

11. If I stopped thinking of you from tomorrow morning,
tell me truthfully—wouldn't it hurt you?

12. The sorrow you keep hidden—
I can catch even that!

13. How can I replace with someone else
the one I love with my whole being!

14. All my life
I've been trying to return home.

15. Where do you find so much time
to be restless about me?
I can't even survive my own restlessness!

16. Save some work for the day's end.
Otherwise you'll find yourself an unpaid maid at other people's houses!

17. All my life I've thought—
the home I yearn for doesn't exist anywhere.

Then suddenly one day
I looked at myself...

18. I'm searching for that person within me
who used to be simple.

19. What we love to do—
that alone loves us back.
Because it loves us, it holds us!

20. I'm not mad.
I'm simply wanting something
you can't even imagine wanting!