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  • Tsukiko Amano

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(蝶)

地下に潜り穴を掘り続けた
どこに続く穴かは知らずに
土に濡れたスコープを片手に
君の腕を探していた
 
つぎはぎの幸せを寄せ集め蒔きながら
君の強さに押し潰されてた
 
焼けつき
焼けつき
剥がれない掌の跡
ちぎれた翼で朱く染まる雲間を裂いて
上手に羽ばたくわたしを見つけて
 
繭に籠もり描いた永遠は
どこに芽吹き花開くのだろう
朝はやがて闇夜を連れ戻し
わたしの眸を奪ってゆく
 
月灯り
手探りで重ね合い縺れては
君の在処になれると信じた
 
燃え尽き
燃え尽き
戻らない約束の場所
ちぎれた痛みで黒く染まる大地を駆けて
上手に羽ばたくわたしを見つけて
 
叫んでも聞こえぬなら
その手で壊してほしい
まだわたしを「わたし」と呼べるうちに
抱き止める君の腕が穏やかな塵に変わる
ただ静かに
天を仰いだ
 
焼けつき
焼けつき
剥がれない掌の跡
ちぎれた翼で朱く染まる雲間を裂いて
 
燃え尽き
燃え尽き
戻らない約束の場所
上手に羽ばたくわたしを見つけて
 
Translation

Butterfly

I kept digging a hole underground
Without knowing where it would go
With a scope wet with dirt in one hand,
I searched for your arms
 
While I gathered and sprinkled my patched-up happiness,
I was crushed by your power
 
Burning
Burning
The traces of a palm that won't come unstuck
Cut between the clouds with my stained red, tattered wings
I find myself flapping them skillfully
 
I wonder where will the cocoon I've secluded myself in for eternity I drew
Bud and bloom?
Before long, the morning will bring back the dark night
And steal my sight
 
I believed
That by fumbling in the piled, illuminating moonlight
Could become the place where you are
 
Burning out
Burning out
I can't go back to the place I promised
Run through the dyed black earth with my shredded pain
And find me flapping my wings skillfully
 
If you can hear me screaming
I want you to destroy me with your own hands
While I can still call myself "me"
Your arms that held me back changed to gentle dust
And I just quietly
Looked up at the heavens
 
Burning
Burning
The traces of a palm that won't come unstuck
Cut between the clouds with my stained red, tattered wings
 
Burning out
Burning out
I can't go back to the place I promised
And find me flapping my wings skillfully
 
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