Phantom Light

Brenda 2022-11-30 05:02:04

Looking back at dusk, the man is no longer in the dim light.
Heaven, earth, sea, and people.
Only shadow in the wind.

Peaceful happiness, peaceful pain, peaceful life, let the rain, the bells, the waves.
The empty old house is buried in the dark place of memory, and the dark place
left by time is precisely because of the bright light traces.

Perhaps the meaning of life lies in the burning of the flame of phantom light
. The deceased is like a kettle on a stove with soft white smoke, leaving the living to solve riddles and doubts.

The sky, the earth, and the sea are connected together.
And people, wandering, are phantom lights.

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Maborosi quotes

  • Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.

  • Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?

    Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.