枝によせて

空に
宙に
風に

枝よ
手を広げ
何を掴む

待つことを知らず
光を浴び
喜びに輝く枝よ

たぎる命は
幹にめぐり
何の不足もない

葉をまとう季節
実をつける歳月
影を落とす慈愛

枝に歌う鳥たち
枝を叩く雨雪
枝はのびてゆく

一本の樹の端と端に
命の雫が宿る
出会うことのない構成

大樹を育てながら
益々遠ざかる別々の枝
風が遙かな梢で呼び交わす

一つの樹木の
果てしない間隙
拡散する枝のうつくしさ

2/15, 2003

Toward the sky
Toward the space
In the wind

Branches
Spreading your hands
What would you grasp?

Knowing not to wait
Wearing the light
You shine in joy, branches

Your fermenting life
Goes through the stem
With no shortage

In seasons of leaves
In years of fruits
With grace of giving shade

With birds singing
With snow and rain beating
Branches grow on

At far ends of a tree
Drops of life are born
A composition never to let them meet

Fostering the large tree
Branches go further away
Only the wind call over the summit

Of a tree
There is an extreme distance
In the beauty of diffusing branches