屋根をうつぬばたまの夜にふる雨は春あたたかく音のかすみつつ

sound of the rain
on a pitch-black night
falling on the roof…
it sometimes gets faint
with the warmth of spring

(C)2021Rika Inami稲美里佳

今日は、しばらく悩んでいたことが一段落した。解決には至ってないが、相談したことで気持ちが落ち着いてきた。もっと早く相談すべきだったとは思っていない。気持ちに区切りをつけて相談を申し入れたからだ。が、それだからといって思い通りになるものでもない。これは、とかく、この世は自分一人の世界ではなく、様々な人のなかでの自分という存在だからであろう。

夕方から雨が降っていた。春の暖かさで、雪がすっかり無くなった屋根を打つ雨の音は夜の闇のなかで響いていたが、時折途絶え、已みがちになる。

In English

Today, something that had been bothering me for a while was settled. Although I haven't reached a solution, I feel calmer now that I have consulted. I don't think I should have asked for help sooner. I'm not saying that I should have consulted earlier because I did so after I had decided to do so. But that doesn't mean that things will turn out the way I hope to. This is probably because this world is not my own world, but I exist among many other people.

It started raining in the evening. The sound of the rain hitting the roofs, which were completely free of snow due to the warmth of spring, echoed in the darkness of the night, but it would occasionally stop and tend to die down.

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