Thursday, December 27, 2012

Reflections on a Love Affair

Perhaps Japan could never be my home,
my eyes are the wrong color,
but I don't know what else to call her.

And now that it is time to leave
I feel I've been wronged.
As a young man struggling to hold on
to his first broken-heart love-affair,
the seduction still prominent
lingers like perfume the morning after,
the realization of the end shattering.

Perhaps Japan could never be my home,
but inside my eyes are brown.

- Yokosuka, Japan - January 1977

originally published in the Seahawk - Umitake News

The current edition featuring on the front page Japanese children celebrating Christmas:

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/navycni/groups/public/@cnrj/@cfay/documents/document/su122112.pdf

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