Earth Song: Waka or Yamato-Uta
“Hark!
The call of the heavens, the earth, the sea...”
—Ushiwaka,
Okami
Earth
Flute music
floats down
like a leaf
upon the breeze.
The forest
is calm.
We could
reminisce, but you?
You just
want to pick a fight.
Sea
You keep
showing up
spouting
half-baked prophecies,
crashing
around, loud
as the
waves on the sea cliffs,
sad as the
ghosts in the deep.
Heavens
The past weighs
on you,
but I would
rather you be
your
space-cadet self.
Let me give
you my shoulder
to cry on, and
to climb on
to keep
your head in the clouds.
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