ode to my family

tonight i cannot suppress my love for my younger sister, my poor younger sister. i want to see her!. on seeing her, i want to say something an elder sister would say. i want to talk with her about Kizugawa to my heart's content. i want both of us to return to those days long passed when we knew nohting of the bitterness, the sorrow, and the pain of the world. nothing else is necessary! sister! sister. will the day ever come when our family, all together, will talk happily about the old days in Kizugawa?

it had begun raining without my realizing it. if only i could gather together my father and mom, whom i have not met in a month, and my elder brother, and my younger brother and all of us have dinner together, no matter how simple the meal would be.

living in the dormitory is tough, i always feel homesick, eventhough i have nice friends here i always want to see my family, but no choice, i have to finish my education and get my bachelor degree here. i wish i could go back to my hometown this month

how this dormitory has perfected its ill treatmend of its guests really takes the cake, well maybe i exaggerated it a bit. beneath my window the flowers on the elder tree were in bloom. not long ago when i was living in the Kizugawa, i remember cutting off the branches of this tree and making pipes from the twigs.

if only i could turn back time