"The Gentle Goddess" - Poem -

If the "Goddess of Time" with a gentle heart were there
and said, "I will take you back to the old days just once,"
what would I do??

I wouldn't want to return to the days of painful memories,
the days drowned in greed,
or the days when I was in love with love...

I want to return to Grandma's mandarin orange orchard in my hometown,
the terraced fields overlooking the sea.
The white mandarin blossoms smell like jasmine,
their scent dancing like butterflies.
Lunch was the fluffy rolled omelet Mom made for me
and Grandma's salted rice balls.
Even at the finest three-star restaurant,
I could never taste the flavor of Mom and Grandma's cooking.

The nostalgia, the deliciousness, the sea breeze brushing my cheeks,
all of these are side dishes for my bento.

Grandma's solo singing
rings thin and high through the mandarin orchard,
and like the fluttering of a heat haze,
it dyes the entire field in amber.
I want to listen to that song, still as a stone statue,
without moving at all.

Surely the Goddess would look at me with a puzzled expression,
asking, "Are you really sure about that?"

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