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Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
The way I must enter
leads through darkness to darkness-
O moon above the mountain's rim,
please shine a little further
on my path,
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.
The one close to me now; even my own body
these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.
Although
the cricket's song
has no words,
still,
it sounds like sorrow.
For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky.
In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
