Showing posts with label lady ki no washika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lady ki no washika. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 July 2011

lady ki no washika

No

It’s not because I’m now too old
More wizened than you guess…

If I say no, it’s only
Because I fear that yes
Would bring me nothing, in the end,
But a fiercer loneliness.


trans by graeme wilson