KEIKO KOMA net

30 Apr. 2011

Dogwood

When the spring had come, under dogwood trees, I used to talk with my friends at my junior high school about many trivial things till late at night forgetting the lapse of time. For some reason, in the spring of this year I vividly recalled this as if it were just yesterday. Though I knew that time did not come back, I wished that I could be born again and have encountered Mr. Idaki Shin when I was fourteen years old, as a junior high school student, so that I would realize all my dreams by manifesting my true nature. This spring, the sensation of this had revived in my mind so I felt that I was indeed renewing my life. After the disastrous earthquake I have seen many sad things, however as I stayed under a cherry blossom tree, I realized the heart of ancient Japanese women’s sadness: love and warmth of nature as well as its destructive powers. I shed tears touched by kindness and love of life. I wished to live a truly human life and create a good society that would allow women to cherish children in peace.