Apr 18, 2010 22:09
Nagakaramu kokoro mo shirazu
Kurokami no
Midarete kesa wa
Mono wo koso omoe
[Will he always love me?
I cannot read his heart.
This morning my thoughts
Are as disordered
As my hair.]
~ Lady Horikawa
Taken from the opening page of Charles De Lint's A Pattern of Silver Strings
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