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Masayo Koike

Invisible Connections III The Life of Rain

Rain fell in a mass
A body of rain but it was not noisy
Rain, so called collectively
Disjoined drops of water
They call ‘fall’, in the midst of a furious journey
Led by an outside force called gravity
The life of rain overtakes with speed alone
The brevity of its journey to earth
In eyelines watching rain
A silent drop of rain stops
In a twinkling of the eye the speed of life
Always invisible fixed
Cannot be overtaken no matter at what speed
That indeed
Is the core of life
Glittering
Stopping at a strange height
The drop itself not wet in the least
Stares at the life of rain

INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS III THE LIFE OF RAIN

Masayo Koike

Masayo Koike

(Japan, 1959)

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INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS III THE LIFE OF RAIN

Invisible Connections III The Life of Rain

Rain fell in a mass
A body of rain but it was not noisy
Rain, so called collectively
Disjoined drops of water
They call ‘fall’, in the midst of a furious journey
Led by an outside force called gravity
The life of rain overtakes with speed alone
The brevity of its journey to earth
In eyelines watching rain
A silent drop of rain stops
In a twinkling of the eye the speed of life
Always invisible fixed
Cannot be overtaken no matter at what speed
That indeed
Is the core of life
Glittering
Stopping at a strange height
The drop itself not wet in the least
Stares at the life of rain
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