Saturday, July 17, 2010

Countless Treasures

We are always fighting
Always struggling
Don't hold back those tears
It's part of life

We are always looking back
Always saying the same "I'm alone"
Now I look again
And then I look again
How many battles have I gone through?
To struggle against sadness
To get to know true loneliness
I've befriended darkness
Oh foolish days

"I'll protect you" was an undeliberate lie
In fact life is full of lies
Have you ever found yourself
The last one standing with the flag
Then dimensions flip
And you're in the next battle
Yes, that's right
Life is full of pain
By getting hurt we learnt that blood is red

And still I have time to write
And still these hands leave their marks behind

Back To Earth

Mysterious the way people work
Notoriously challenging the rules
And though knows, believes not
And that applies to me too
How can this training be so short?
And while people fuss over trivial things
I wonder why I only see the big picture

When they draw me the small pixels
I happened to see more than black and white
As I see what's between 0 and 1
Can't help but think how small it can break
Unable to say no to those things
I start learning again

What's the big picture?
0 or 1
It's true it's not enough
Nothing more that foundations
Maybe I'm starting to see it
Because I'm not a robot
After all I'm a traveler
Who travels and learns

Scarecrow

It's time to go
困ってる人がいるからこそ
私たちは動く

When I told you we have to move
You called me a fool
For abandoning knowledge that could be a tool
You said wait, it's not time yet
Just like them, always waiting
Then do you know who they are?
The people who said the same thing in the past hundred years
But what changes? What do you see?
All promises made, few actually done
The rich just rise higher
While more people struggle in poverty
What is this promise that you want to make?
History proved it, what else is there to say

When people move, those who don't will be left behind
How can you laugh here
When you know out there people are suffering?
Someone's working on it? How do you know
You're doing it your own way? What is your way
Always making promises
人間の悪い癖

Because you will be asked more than this
On judgment day
And no one will back you up
Unless you wake up from those selfish dreams

Between Sunset And Sunrise

Something moves in the hearts
Birds that flap their wings under the red sky
Always wanting to fly, we repeat the same mistakes
An ocean that was blue holds treasures
Deep down at the bottom lie the secrets
So near yet untouchable

Have we thought as we walk on this earth?
How we hurt the trees just because they can't speak
They say you can tell animals apart at a glance
Amidst stupidity we are different
Tomorrow comes at a steady pace along with death
And with death comes lie, the size of a palm

We know everything is a blessing
The mountains that hold strong, the earth that revolves
Diamonds in the sky show the way
To sailors, to travelers as well
Birds that sing, birds that fly
Over the snowtops the deers ran
Though you admit that laughter is remedy
Why deny those you can't grasp?

Look forward as you walk on this earth
You might see where pillars of the sky stand
I had been fooled for a long time
When I thought emotion is a lie
A forget-me-not smiles at the sun
A small stone stares up at the wide night sky

Tokyo Heart

Enough with our stories
Time write a new chapter

Beneath a forbidden land you wipe sword
Clean from blood that you shed from those poor souls
Against each other again and again
Then under the same silver-leafed tree you sat
Filling each others' cups with tea
Reminiscing the good old future drama
What brings? What says? What is this?
Enough with madness, we'll write a new chapter

Could it be gold that they seek?
Singing under the moonlight a blank lullaby
It's not hard, it's easy this way of life
But they say no, when we haven't even asked

Hmm... hymn a long hymn
Thinking, thinking is a road
Leading to a birth of a new face
But people only trust their greed

Complexity makes things look great
Sometimes it brings us to our knees
I wonder if I'll be able to slip out
When will this be answered
This circle of life

While Unearthing Diamonds I Found...

I know somewhere out there you are crying
I know what the stars see when they embed the night sky
If it is our destiny to hold onto third thread
It will come through a looking glass

Somewhere is what's beyond
In another sky someone awaits

People never cease to wait in vain
Even as light moves on as fast to tell the time
Why won't they believe that time can play like music
Repeating over and over again
Or going backwards
Or even stop

A sweet fragrance tells of a story from the future
That has not yet begun but that soothes the pain
The pain after being clawed and torn then sewn again
Ahh, what they call a curse is but a wonderful miracle
When the birds sing in the blue sky I gazed at the hill
Where you sat, where you waited
Where it all will begin

And creatures of darkness are made of fire
Who would've thought they could work otherwise
They always say nothing matters
But they had always understood
In the name of the Creator who made me from earth
I vow to fight and retain peace on this land

Monday, June 28, 2010

Democracy

If little children are killed
If women are raped by consent
When war is won by the one with supporters
Even though they know people are dying
People are suffering
And they still say it's the best
If people have to starve
And enslavement occurs again
If knowledge is all it's about
And morals are thrown aside
They let one side bomb the other
But call the other terrorists when they resist
If this is what you call democracy
We don't need it

If only one side gets to speak
And frequent deaths by mistake are overlooked
If only one side controls the media
And no one realise they are brainwashed
When ruthless killing still exist
When a group of people are stomped upon
Just because they don't share the same idea
And just because they fight for what had been stolen from them
You call them terrorists
If anyone gets to insult another
If everyone is free to say what they want
Without a limit, even if someone gets offended
When a friend makes fun of his mother's impaired feet
When a husband laughs at her brother's brain deficiency
And everyone gets to have their say
If this is what you call freedom of speech
We don't need it

But if you call democracy
A place where no one hurts another
Where offenders are dealt upon with justice
And an intelligent ruler walks along his people
Looking at what they eat
Looking at what they're wearing
Then he himself dons the same thing
And eats the same thing
Where understanding is more important than knowledge
When no one is a slave by consent
Where everyone REALLY gets the chance to speak
Without hurting or offending anyone
Where rulers are chosen by majority
Not by unseen voters
And technology is a tool
It is not our god
Then people work to save the earth
And people, and animals as well
When people watch suffering people on the media
They get sad and move to help
Be far they are
Be poor they are
They don't just share their wealth
But they share their sufferings
If this is what you call democracy
It is not far from Islam
If this is what you call democracy
We would not fight you

If you see artists as idols
If everyone struggles to be seen
While no one wants to be the one watching
Except those who benefit from that struggle
When people are judged by their status
By what they have, what they wear
People chase after beauty while their folks grow thin
If commercials tell people what to buy
While small dealers just collapse
If you walk by and see a homeless man
And you don't feel a bit of sympathy
When you think it is the norm of life
To have the poor and do nothing
If you cry over a dying population on the TV
Then have a good night sleep right after
If you have no remorse for that small mistake
Because you don't think anyone will remember
If doctors have to be paid to treat
If rulers have to be paid to write testaments
And women are either denied to equality
Or they are forced to work
If this is what you call democracy
Remember that it won't last long