海峡の町

風のある日は
海峡に三角波が刻まれる
遠くで見ると動かない
無数の白が紺青を飾る

窓ガラスに吸い付いて
山麓の建物から見下ろしていた
少女の姿を私は探す
あの子の眼の三角波

山の中腹の草原を
踊りながら歌いながら
彷徨って夢の中へ
迷い込んだ少女を
私は探しに出かける

まだ生きていれば今いくつ
樹のない町へ帰るのは嫌だ
山の見えない都会は苦しい
海の色が遠くなるところへ
戻らなくてはいけないのと
嘆いた少女はどこへ行った

成長するのは怖ろしい
女と呼ばれる人は怖い
大人になんかなりたくない
そう思ったのはあの子だけ？

風に乗って時を遡り
樹の歌を聞きに行こう
もしまだあの草原があるなら
あの子に会える気がする

海峡の町に
たれ込める雲に
肌を切る寒さにも
脛を出していた
腕を晒していた
誰のものでもない
少女

憧れに殉じ
成長を止め
何十年も
草の中で遊ぶ
夢の中の少女が
もしいるものならば

2/25, 2003

Looking for a Girl

On a windy day
Chops are engraved in the strait
They are motionless in the distance
Numerous white in dark blue

Sticking to a window
Looking down from a foothill building
Was a girl I look for
Chops in her eyes

In the grassland in a mountain
Dancing and singing
She wandered
Into a dream
I go out to look for her

How old can she be now?
Don't take me back to a town with no trees
It's hard to breathe in a city with no mountains
Why do I have to go to a place
With no colors of the sea?
Where has the girl gone who mourned?

It's terrifying to grow up
It's horrible to be a woman
I won't be an adult
Is she the only one who thought so?

Let me catch the wind to the past
To listen to the song of trees
If I can find the grassland again
I'm sure I can meet her again

In a town beside the strait
Under the low clouds
Blown in the ice cold wind
She was in her bare feet
With bare arms
She belonged to nobody
The girl

She would have died for what she adored
She would have stopped aging
For decades and decades
She would have played in grassland
In her dreamland
I wonder if she still lives there