First Cycle: Bonds
My sad voice resounds.
Can you hear it?
My sad voice resounds.
Can you follow it?

Lost to you
I wander forever from your grasp.

That moment
is all that I have.
That moment
is all that I feel.

That memory
is my connection to you.

It is our bond…
…our love.


Second Cycle: Again
The Day gives birth to Night;
now rise.
The Night gives birth to Day;
close your eyes.

Once more.
Once more.

Rise,
then close your eyes.


Third Cycle: Fate
Why do you defy me?
My will shall not yield.
Do not defy me!
My will cannot yield.
How did you defy me?
Your fate is now sealed.

My strength.
My soul.

All lie broken.
Shattered.
A myriad of pieces glitter ominously.
The fragments, embedded in your heart.

Pull them out.
One
by
one.

No longer
can they be put back
together.


Fourth Cycle: Unza
Why must the sun set?
It is too long to wait until dawn.
Why must the sun set.
I cannot wait till dawn.

Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.

We shall meet.

Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.

Our destiny.
Our fate.
A poetic encounter.


Fifth Cycle: Kagura
Now dance!
Across the void, dawn rises.
Now dance!
Across the void, you arrive.

Lost
amongst shadows
you walk
along dark roads
and shrouded bridges
of black feathers
and weeping magpies.

Now dance!
Into the void, we part.
Now dance!
Into the light you go.

Magpies fly.
Black feathers fall to the ground
like tears.


Sixth Cycle – Umei
Power.
Will.
None are like mine.

Soul.
Spirit.
None can escape from me.

Time.
Space.
None I cannot bend nor break.

Fate.
Destiny.
All I control.


Fifth Cycle: Remembrance
Fused shards.
Fused memories.

Everything returns.
Everything I remember.

Sadness.
Pain.
It all.

Happiness.
Love.
All of it.

No matter how brief
it all is –

like the bloom of a flower
like gently falling rain
like untouched snow.

I shall be happy.
Happy, to have experienced this moment
our fate encounter.

Time carries on.
Life starts.
Life ends.
And shifts in-between.

But this moment
I shall remember
forever.