KEIKO KOMA net

2 Nov. 2011

Autumn

Since childhood I felt sadness in autumn. So in the first autumn after having lost my mother I realized that a terrible sadness had penetrated into the depth of my life. Moreover the sound of leaves of trees in late autumn that I heard after my father’s death was unforgettably sad. In the autumn of the year 2007, my earnest longing was fulfilled and I had the chance to visit Mt. Gojo, the birth place of Koguryo, after nine years of absence. The leaves of trees were dyed in red color and were falling down to earth. I felt the breath of numerous new lives. I said that though leaves of trees were falling down, life in nature never ceased to give birth to a new life. I felt that my life was unified with every life in nature and filled with joy. This was the first time in my life that autumn became a season of joy. As I realized a life unified with nature, I acknowledged that nature was always guiding me to live on under any circumstances. I was filled with a great gratitude to be alive. Meanwhile as I traveled by car from Kyoto to Tokyo via Fukui, I envisioned God in mountains and experienced that my life was filled with joy to live a truly human life unified with God. Vigor to live on has circulated within my life. Nature was indeed always showing me how to live on. As I was heading for the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concerts to be held in the Tohoku area, I was looking forwards to narrating my poems that expressed the truth of life. These days I felt that a new era had come when human beings had completely to change their way of life and realize a new one true to the principles of life. In this respect the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert that we were organizing this month made me realize with gratitude that our events would open up a prosperous future for humankind. In Tohoku we would uncover a hidden truth in history. My life has been changing to be ready for the concerts. I knew I was heading for something unknown before. In any case I would do everything I could so that as many people as possible would come to experience our events. We were working at the center of human history and I prayed that our messages would reach everybody’s soul.