Dimly glow the fireflies
In the densely wooded grove
The creek beside the promenade
Sounds like the whispers of the cove
In its solitary peace
The carp repress confessions
In the quiet emerald water
Live sorrows and obsessions
And when the cicadas buzz
They are like a music box
Young love is their handle and springs
They are the muse the world mocks
The melody of passion
Bleeds like the sap of the trees
On lukewarm nights of dancing stars
Love enters the world as breeze
A pair of lovers awaits
To live together at last
And as the date comes closer here
The future is not colorfast
Life's hourglass so expires
And there is not one who grieves
His final rest is too costly
So now he floats with the leaves
There's no wedding to foresee
Thus the bridge became of use
Her toes hang off the bridge again
But this time she holds a noose
Oh the irony of love
It's as the cicadas sang
"Be joyful now in summer's heat,
By our love, we all will hang."
The silly girl hanged herself
And she hung there not alone
Cicadas sang her melody
As her neck skin removed from her bone
And so she hung there quite still
Until her corpse decomposed
Her tale was not quite as haunting
As the music the cicadas composed