When I see the moon…

After you left
I fell in love with the most beautiful person in this city,
I even said yes to the most celebrated one's affection.

Then...
I left them whenever I pleased!
And fell into new love again, how many times over!

Each time I closed my eyes to kiss a lover,
each time, someone's face
would suddenly float up in the corner of my vision!

Each time I held a lover tight against my chest,
each time, for someone I know not who,
something would ache somewhere in my heart!

Each time I insisted on seeing my lover,
having met them, in my lover's features
I kept searching for someone else...
I grew weary searching for whose shadow
lay hidden in their portrait...

Even after all this,
will you still say you are lost!
Even after all this, will I still think...
I have lost you!

Today I understand—
I have fallen in love a thousand times,
but fallen into love itself just once,
...with you alone!

I realize
I have left you completely behind, it's true,
yet I haven't been able to leave you...not even a little!

Even now, when I see the moon in the night sky,
it's only you who comes to mind!