“while resembling you
looking at it with my heart
I’m discomforted
by the weight of tear-like dew
on wild carnation flowers”
“beyond measuring
the thousand fathoms depth
may the sea weeds
keep growing to be so deep
I’ll be merely a caretaker”
“you only dip
into shallow waters
in my morass
my body is totally submerged
in the ways of burning love”
“clouded
by affairs of the heart
I am lost
hello! Why doesn’t someone
ask how I am?”
Murasaki Shikibu
Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 3:23 PM UTC
“while resembling you
looking at it with my heart
I’m discomforted
by the weight of tear-like dew
on wild carnation flowers”
“beyond measuring
the thousand fathoms depth
may the sea weeds
keep growing to be so deep
I’ll be merely a caretaker”
“you only dip
into shallow waters
in my morass
my body is totally submerged
in the ways of burning love”
“clouded
by affairs of the heart
I am lost
hello! Why doesn’t someone
ask how I am?”
Murasaki Shikibu
words of passion and heartache written by the Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikibu a thousand years ago
