Solitude ~saigo no tekami~

 

The autumn wind blows, leaves fall off the trees.
Soon, snow will cover me.
I kept sending you letters.
So that my last wish reaches you, I let a bird fly.

The cloudless sky continues on endlessly.
My heart goes to fly together with you.

The landscape beyond the forest that stretches in front of me
is stricken with the dream I’m pursuing and reality.

If it’s you I wanted to protect, you’ll surely understand.
The scar on my chest I felt the first time we met
won’t heal and tells a tale of the past.
The feelings I hoarded eventually gave me wings.

Life withers away, unable to withstand the passage of time.
But still, I saw children giving birth to new children again and again.

You gave me the strength to protect the one I love.
This wind will turn back into life.
I’ll return the long time I was granted to your blood;
to the young king leading me.

When I fall into sleep into the depths of dreams, and start to forget,
wrapping the utter solitude of the royal family in this wind of mine…

Oh sky, reflect my heart. Living in your name without being ashamed now,
I’ll proudly blow against the ridge.