puisi karya Tanikawa Shuntaro

《挽歌(ばんか)》
今は鬼(おに)なる人の
その高貴(こうき)な想(おも)い出(で)を
地殻(ちかく)に刻(きざ)み
無鋳型(むいがた)を
神(かみ)に贈(おく)ろう

正(ただ)しき問(とい)を
眼窩(がんか)に秘(ひ)め
湖(こ)を煮(に)つくして
人(ひと)は移(うつ)る
烈(はげ)しい夢(ゆめ)と新(しん)な夢(ゆめ)と

An Elegy

I will engrave on Earth's crust

the noble memory

of the man who is now an ogre,

and present to God

the world of Nothingness.

Having hidden a correct question

in eye socket

and having made the lake simmer dry,

people move on....

a violent dream and a new dream.