Inspired by Ono no Komachi

A flower watered
in the falling falling rain
and unspeakingly
the moon in her watchtower
looks on while I do not sleep

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The lamp on the street
though midnight stars are rising
pales beside your light

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The man in the moon
rattles his tin can aloft
dropping stars to earth
but for all his estrangement
he is not as far as you

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