Soul's Cry

I couldn't spend the rest of my life with you — this is my sorrow.
All the stories gathered in my heart, the conversations we never had in this lifetime — this is my regret!

You know, don't you, that sorrow and regret are not the same...
After a while, people do forget their sorrows, but regrets remain in the heart... forever.
I've accepted that I'll never see you again,
but that I can never even express this longing to see you —
this I simply cannot accept.

Our deliberate meetings will never happen again,
if we meet by chance someday, I'll have to live on that memory alone!
I tell my heart these things every day.

When I'm restless with longing to see you, even briefly,
you won't come running — oh, I know this well enough.
Beyond all these known rules, won't one exception ever apply?

Sometimes so many rules are broken in this world,
then why does your watch never run on someone else's time?
Not even by mistake! Where did you buy such a stubborn watch?
Will you buy me one too?

Don't you ever think that you're harder than reality itself?
Do you know what my final wish for you is?
I want to take you back to the exact place where I found you,
and standing there myself, lose you all over again...

Do you remember...
that day we sat face to face on the grass,
walked hand in hand with smooth steps across a bridge,
blew on tea cups at a roadside stall,
dipped our feet in the lake water while I gazed into your eyes,
threw our arms and legs about together, getting drenched in rain
on that kilometer-long road through your campus...
...don't you remember...?
What you've so easily forgotten has trapped my entire life!