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When You Were Near
<p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><strong>When you were there, I stayed away from you…</strong></span></p><p>And today, I do not know where you are, while I remain here…</p><p>It feels as if I will spend my whole life searching for you…</p><p>Whenever hiccups visit you… understand — even now, I am in pursuit of you…</p><p><br/></p><p>If someday, in some era, we meet suddenly…</p><p>Perhaps wrinkles will mark your face, and dried tears will rest in your eyes…</p><p><br/></p><p>I shall lower my gaze…</p><p>Will you also not look at me…</p><p>Yes… perhaps you will bid me farewell once again…</p><p>Very well, I shall depart…</p><p>Yes, I know this too…</p><p>You will linger, waiting, turning back to glimpse me…</p><p>I shall not turn…</p><p>Yes, I shall not see… perhaps I shall conceal my tears…</p><p><br/></p><p>Returning once more from your search…</p><p>Once again with that same fragile hope…</p><p>That perhaps, at some turning of time, we shall meet…</p><p><br/></p><p>In a corner of the house…</p><p>Amidst the shadows…</p><p>A sheet of melancholy lies…</p><p>Whispering lullabies…</p><p>Perhaps hoping the eyes shall forget the portrait…</p><p><br/></p><p>Clouds of sorrow have gathered…</p><p>The courtyard of the house enclosed…</p><p>Of butterflies with broken wings…</p><p>In my house, the withered flowers have made their abode…</p><p><br/></p><p>Are these…</p><p>Your dried tears…</p><p>Or the garden of my desolation?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Then an era passed…</p><p>And a dwelling of fragile hopes remained…</p><p><br/></p><p>Then an era passed…</p><p>And a dwelling of fragile hopes remained…</p><p><br/></p><p>When you arrive someday…</p><p>In the corner of darkness…</p><p>There shall be the dwelling of the fireflies of light…</p><p>Wrapping the sheet around me</p><p>Once more, that same song of yours shall hum…</p><p>Again the butterflies shall spread their wings</p><p>And soar, fragile yet radiant…</p><p>Once more the flowers shall bloom</p><p>And fragrance shall scatter through every courtyard…</p><p><br/></p><p>When you come, someday…</p><p><br/></p><p>Even the moon shall melt and sca</p><p>tter…</p><p>Along the path you tread…</p><p><br/></p><p>Will you come, someday…?</p>
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