To What End?

Ten years ago

the sky had died

Since then I wander lands

A lone samurai

I've seen no one

Been seen by no one

I've not found myself

I was cursed by a Zen Monk's words:

All that will happen already has;

All that has happened is happening now;

What happens now never happens.

I can find no escape

From her shadow world

I built a statue
Of the one I trust,
In daily agony
I watch it rust

I mine for gold

But to what end?

Defeated by

The sunset wind

Who bears the weight

Of a broken sky?

Not I, samurai -

Not I, samurai