Having returned from Kyoto, although I did not know the reason why, my heart grew dark and my body was very tired. While feeling that it was a great turning point, I listened to “Kaze no Tayori” (“Messages from the Wind”) and understood that there was no other way to move but as the body moved, united with the wind, and to head toward the unknown world. Life itself taught me that the situation had become such that I could no longer consciously use my body and move as I had before. I accepted it as the beginning of creating a path by moving as my body moved. I felt that it was the “suffering of giving birth.”
Whenever I write poems, there are times when I am overcome by an unbearable sense of emptiness, loneliness, and sorrow. At those times, when I put into words what is within me, through tears I write a poem. A story that I myself could never have imagined comes into being. Through writing poems, I have experienced that when something new is born, there is nothing to do but express things as they are.
Now, as I create a new path, I wish to move forward by accepting things as they are, expressing the feelings that are born, and moving as my body moves. Today as well, the wind was pleasant, and it told me that it was with me. Thank you very much.