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Manhã com Poesia

Awake tonight
with lonliness,
I cannot keep myself
from longing
for the handsome moon.

Is this love reality
or a dream?
I cannot know,
when both reality and dreams
exist without truly existing.

Ono no Komachi

Ono no Komachi; Izumi Shikibu, The Dark Ink Moon, (New York, Vintage Books, 1999), pp.13-14