Flightless Bird

Looking up at the stained sky

Beyond the twilight

I feel like you are there

I wish I could fly to you right now

Spreading my wings

In a straight line to where you are

If I think I want to see you

I could go see you right away

I wish I could be that kind of bird

...but

I am a penguin

Even though I am a bird

I cannot fly in the sky

No matter how much I spread my wings

No matter how strongly I wish

I cannot soar into the sky

But does that mean

I should give up on going to see you?

No

Because I am a penguin

Though I cannot fly in the sky

I can swim in the sea

These wings that cannot fly

I should just turn them into wings for swimming

To reach where you are

I dive into the ocean

Even if it is far

Even if the waves are rough

While surfacing for air again and again

Watching the birds that fly in the sky

I sometimes think, 'I wish I could fly too'

And there are days when I feel envious

Closer

Higher

More specially

In that way

Both in my longings and in my life

There are times when I aim too high

But

Just lamenting that I cannot fly

Nothing begins

I am a penguin

I cannot fly in the sky

But

I can swim in the sea better than anyone else

If that is the case

Instead of being ashamed of not being able to fly

I should master the art of swimming

Rather than envying someone else's wings

I should cherish

what only I possess

Perhaps that is how it is with longing, too

Even if I cannot fly

to your world in one go...

Little by little

I will draw closer in my own way of swimming

And someday

“It was precisely because I couldn't fly

that I was able to meet you”

I hope a day comes when I can think that

The penguin looking up at the sky

is thinking of you again today

Even though I cannot fly

I can swim

I will swim through my own ocean

heading toward you

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