二十億光年の孤独

TWO BILLION LIGHT-YEARS OF LONELINESS

 

Human beings on a small sphere

Sleep, get up, and work

And sometimes they want pals from Mars

 

Martians on a small sphere

What they're doing, I don't know

(Or if they are neriri-ing, kiruru-ing and harara-ing )

But sometimes they want pals from Earth

That much I know

 

Universal gravitation is

The power of loneliness that pulls things towards each other

 

The universe is distorted

Therefore, we all desire each other

 

The universe is steadily expanding

Therefore, everyone is anxious

 

Facing two billion light-years of loneliness,

I sneezed in spite of myself

 

—Shuntaro Tanikawa,

Done