KEIKO KOMA net

7 Oct. 2010

Autumn sky

At night under the high large sky in autumn, I was walking through darkness blown by winds and I imagined in my mind a moonlight under which king Tomei was walking along. Eventually I thought I had lost my way, and all of a sudden I envisioned the same aurantiacus flower as should be in full bloom right now at Kinchakuda flower fields in the village of Koma where I had visited several years ago to see the aurantiacus full of light shining red that had covered everywhere. It was really beautiful, however its somewhat sad feeling made me recall the life of king Tomei and I burst into tears. It was also in the late afternoon and since then I never forgot the light-vision of this red flower field. I came to learn from a book that king Tomei had passed away in September and this explained the reason for a touch of sadness associated with this beautiful vision in my mind. Today winds of autumn made me recall the vision and I became confident of renewing my life as the new season had come. I also recalled that after my mother had died, the autumn season without her was very different from that I had spent with my mother. I was very surprised to realize that one single person’s life could completely change the surrounding atmosphere and space, not to mention the deepest grievances of having lost king Tomei that should have overshadowed Mt. Gojo. Now that we were living in a new season we would stand up by ourselves.