Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Thoughts in Miniature: One Hundred and Twenty-Seven

1. There are certain marks in a person's life
that one day become more radiant than rainbows!
Friend, what you see standing before the mirror is not everything there is.

2. The desire to see you is so intense,
yet the weight of sorrow is far greater still!
When you leave me behind,
tell me, how shall I carry it alone?

3. Discordant notes play most freely in melodies too sweet!
Now you tell me,
in which tune have you decided to sing your life's song?

4. Don't walk taking up the entire road—leave some space empty as you go.
If you don't, who will come forward when you reach out your hand?

5. Look toward those turns in events
that existed, and so we know the story.

6. All the complaints of the heart become blessings one day.
Before that, one must lose oneself countless times
…to prayer, to anguish.

7. Seeing the extremes of your compassion,
all my sorrows seemed to touch the sky!

8. What I do not say
lives on as echo within the heart.

9. Why say we shouldn't tend our wounds, when wounds are what adorn life?
Who has ever healed sorrow without first knowing pain?

10. Alas, I understood the meaning of distance only after separation!

11. One who has complete control over their own heart—
can such a person even be human?

12. Everything in life is in our own hands,
but whose hands hold our hands—no one knows!

13. My friends' faithlessness has reached such limits
that I no longer trust even myself!

14. When someone speaks of their beloved to another,
are they not, in truth, speaking to themselves?

15. In this crowded assembly, is there not even one
who is trustworthy, before whom I can bare myself?

16. Night's curse still clings to these two eyes!
Tell me, how can I cast this broken gaze toward you?
Don't look this way—I need a little more time to prepare.

17. When the time comes, even the quiet type opens their bag of sorrows.
Alas, only the opening!
No one can be found to share the burden!

18. Is there not even a single day
that would hold no complaints at all?

19. One heart moves away from another without knowing…
whether there is any need for this moving away at all!

20. Why this sudden show of kindness?
Why have you suddenly begun keeping promises?
Are you then asking to be placed on the list of suspects too?
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