Friday, October 6, 2017

Agony

From The Spectator, 27 June, 1992
Agony
by Otomo no Yakamochi
translated by Graeme Wilson

What agony, our dream–encounters.

Can you not understand
How pitiably a man is torn,
How utterly unmanned,
To wake with hand stretched out for one
Beyond the reach of hand?

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