Rainy season poetry

We are not so beautiful as we are taken pictures
No choice but to live, no choice but to show each other’s eyes
When you die, everyone forgets
No choice but to live, plants growing in the distance penetrate us,
Even if all the pain other than death is covered, I will not forgive your loneliness
Counter the rain by maximizing the speaker volume
Living without knowing how long the scent of a room filled life remains after our death
You are happy if you just live, had to be so
I will not forgive your loneliness, I will live even if you die
Even though I am alone, I grow up the light in the blink of an eye and listen to the rain
I have same life as you, an independent bright star
I am as precious as you are

This is Saihate Tahi’s poem.

When I read her poem for the first time, I thought it is a poem I had never seen before.

In this poem, she faced death and life. And I feel that she said we should live.

She told us why living is important, why we live thorough our daily lives.

When it is rainy, we tend to dark feeling, but we have no choice but to live.

I supposed “I am as precious as you are” means as it is, but I felt that it says I am here because you are here.

Her poems are unique and I haven’t seen many Japanese poems like her.

If you are interested, please check out her various poems.

Summer Wars

“If I give up, I can’t solve it. The answer remains unanswered.”
「諦めたら解けない、答えは出ないままです。」

This is the lines of this movie’s hero, Kenji.
He is ordinary boy, but he is one special point. It’s a mathematical ability. He was almost to become a representative of the International Mathematical Olympiad. Unfortunately he couldn’t be.
In this world, people can use all services in the virtual world on the Internet.
Many people use it and all informations are there.
One time, due to AI’s runaway, he suddenly faced the great chaos involving the world.

The director of this movie is Mamoru Hosoda. It was released in 2009.
When I was 4th grade of elementary school, in 2010, I watched this movie for the first time.
I remember the excitement of seeing the world of AI and the development of technology that I couldn’t believe at the time. These characters looked like an older sister to me at the time, and I was envious of high school students. But now it’s kind of strange that I have passed their age.
However, no matter how old I am, their unity and ties touch my heart. And now, AI’s world are no longer an illusion, but a reality. You can see it from a different point of view in today’s era.
So, if you have never seen this, let’s check it out.