1.The Thirteen Winters2.
3.Blood-stained… the crimson earth…
4.Covered by white snow…
5.If only it would fall… and pile up deeper…
6.I almost wish for that…7.
8.As the seasons turn… when spring sings,
9.Surely, you’ll fly away…
10.If I can’t stop you, then I only wished
11.To be close by… always…12.
13.How long can people hold onto the dreams
14.They admired in their youth?
15.The more we chase the truth, the farther it slips away…
16.Looking back, I stand frozen… on a path of corpses…17.
18.—Since that day…
19.I count the seasons we raced through together,
20.And close my eyes against the brightness of that unreachable light.
21.The warmth that cradles my trembling neck…
22.How many more times can I bear this cold?23.
24.“Fight!” you said… “Fight!” you said…
25.Those words of yours… still resound, unfading…26.
27.A hell that dreams, or a heaven that does not—
28.*Which one is truly happiness?*
29.—Night continues on with meaningless questions…30.
31.Some cut their growing hair, others tie it back.
32.*Which one is truly free?*
33.—Love falters under these merciless questions…34.
35.Just being beside you… that alone is enough…
36.I don’t need anything else… and yet,
37.This modest hope—
38.Is it an unforgivable “self”?
39.—Or perhaps…40.
41.Even as I count the seasons that unknowingly pass us by,
42.Empty prayers fade into the dusk…
43.Unfulfilled promises wander in the twilight…
44.Can I bear the true weight of this pain?45.
46.“Fight!” you said… “Fight!” you said…
47.Those words from that day… still echo, powerful…48.
49.When I wake… the blurred sky, my frozen cheeks…
50.A world shimmering, though I did not wish for it—
51.Once again, this year, spring arrives,
52.Leaving behind a winter (of thirteen years)…
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