Sunflower

Sunflower By:

Note: Original title is "ひまわり" or "Himawari".

Wind; summer, when all are one A time when all are gathered under a sun

A sun, a star in the distant sky Looks down on us with indifferent eyes

Like all that lived, we sway simply Shaking, whirling, dancing limply

Like a sunflower.

Green is the field and blue is the sky Warm is the air, like tears that are cried

Those meant for joy, those meant to heal Wounds left behind in a great upheaval

Yet we watch on without a care Just a smiling face and toss of the hai

Like a sunflower.

Suddenly, it’s cold and the sun has gone It’s hiding away, has something gone wrong?

The green becomes dark and the blue becomes gray Not one person could have seen it this way

With just one thought and one simple mind; We are one and the same.

The trees seem limp, the waters, like lead The wind falters once, and

Like a sunflower;

It is dead.