prologue
even if you think you’d skillfully managed to escapelike a shadow at dusk, it sticks to one’s heels;that uncertainty overtakes you in heightalready akin to a grim reaperdespite not wanting to, one goes along with the flowin any case, going back or anything like that is impossibleone reflects on one’s own weakness, failures, etcyouth was over a long time agothe calling of cicadas is far, far awayif the wind blows, it’ll fly away, though it’s a miserable determinationthings one wants to touch but which can’t be touchedthings one wants to erase but which can’t ever be erasedhow much of that is oneself– how much of that is you–
failures too stained to be called nostalgic sentiments;burdened with whether or not to walk with themdedicate them to your future self