KEIKO KOMA net

2nd Sep 2008
 

Cosmic tree growing towards Heaven

On my way to a concert hall to give my tonight’s concert, Messages of Mother Earth, I felt the pleasant autumn breezes of Mt. Gojo where I visited last year and I heard that the origin of its name was a symbolic tree that grew towards Heaven. Marvelously, its meaning was the same as IDAKI. I pronounced the name loudly with joy and climbed up 999 steps to reach the top of the mountain from where I could see a wonderful landscape with lakes called dragon nails. I realized that king Tomei should have known the ideas of Idaki and named the mountain so. In my poem on king Tomei from Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered, I said that he knew that human kind could live an eternal life only if one were connected with the world far beyond Heaven. Now that our world was fully opened to the eternal world, we would build the ideal country that human kind had long been wishing for since ancient times. What king Tomei envisioned as a cosmic tree in Mt. Gojo is now visible in the Idaki space created by Mr. Idaki Shin. I am deeply obliged to him for providing me the opportunity create a new world that could never be destroyed. I feel I am doing it together with king Tomei, king Kotai, and numerous people who dedicated their lives to creating a good human society. In my event I do not care about the reaction of majority of the audience as I place priority on even a single person who will be awakened to truth expressed by my poems. I consider the situation of my life is as if in a battle field in ancient times and I came to realize how to take action without hesitation and do things much faster and efficiently than before. The music dedicated to Koguryo’s ancient troop played by Mr. Idaki Shin is still resonating in my heart, and I am catching up to its high tempo and dynamic rhythm.