This body
grown fragile, floating,
a reed cut from its roots
If a stream would ask me
to follow, I’d go, I think.
Ono no Komachi (Japanese poet, early Heian period, c. 825—c. 900),
from: “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu”, (via heian-kyaa)
