物語

物語は天から降ってくる
思わず見上げる空模様
ネコが顔を洗ったらしい

時の流れに逆らい
仕舞い込まれた
密かなもくろみ
思い出の
ひきだしを開ければ
Splash!
ことばの飛沫

立ち止まって
おのおの
歩いてきた道を
ふり返る十字路
誰に渡そう
子どもたち
子どもの子どもたち
それとも
通りすがりの
人の懐に

封じ込めていた
遙かな記憶
微かな悔恨
無言の驚嘆
褪せぬ憧憬

うねりながら海を目指す
奔流
流れ流され
合い寄る木葉が
偶さか出会う偶然

よくぞ無事で
生きてきたねと
すれ違いざまの
挨拶は
それぞれの物語の一瞬

今生一度の
慈雨
潤いは天恵
嵐の弥生
もの皆浴びる
芽吹きの水音

新たに生まれ出よと
呼ぶ声がする

3/3, 2003

Stories fall from the sky
I wonder whose deed it is
Cats have washed their faces

Against the passage of time
Stored are
Secret plans
Open the drawers of
Special memories
Splash!
Spring out words

We stop for a while
To look back
On a crossroad
At each way we came along
To whom sholud we pass it?
To children,
To children's childen,
Or rather
To someone's bosom
Who passes by?

Sealed were
Memories far away
Subtle regrets
Silent wonders
Unfading adoration

Rushing toward the sea
Is the torrent
Streaming and being streamed
Leaves come to meet
Just by the mererest chance

Here you are!
We've survived somehow!
We hail to each other
When we pass by
In a moment of our stories

If this is just
The only gracious rain
It is the blessing
The storm in March
Falls on all
The sound of fostering water

The humbly lit
Vague light of lantern
Shows the sihlouette of hearts
On the screen for a couple of dolls

Be born anew!
I hear a call