Sakuras

I do not doubt you are aware of the meaning

that such pastel petals symbolize more than a single breath.

They are nothing, yet they are everything.

They are life, and they are death.

Much history is written in a single petal.

How many years are contained in a single blossom?

Every era is a tree that cannot be taken down by any metal!

I catch five petals, pressing them to my bosom.

I would like my blossom full of those I love.

Each person—a petal—I do not wish to lose a single one.

Nothing compares to the beauty, not even a dove.

The petals fall, leaving me alone.

The history of the Sakura tree

proves to us that life can be free.