Child of the Earth
You were a bundle of adorable soul
At the moment of birth, everyone
shed tears of joy
Living in the fleeting moment of
the universe's inspiration
A miraculous life was born on the
Earth
The Earth had lost its greenery,
and red-brown wastelands spread
Many people suffered from hunger
and warfare
Babies were born only to perish
silently
Human hearts grew wild, turning
into a battlefield of plunder and slaughter
You stood on the Earth with a
strong will
Not possessing any special powers
Not causing miracles
Just something seeping into
people's hearts
The joy of your birth
Was a gift from those who had
awaited your arrival
People who found you endearing
gathered around
Although they were in despair
Your birth stirred something
within them, touching their hearts
You were raised as a child of the Earth
You did not command
Replacing weapons with hoes and
shovels, you dug waterways in dry land
The flowing water was released
into the wasteland, and trees were planted
Greenery revived in the dry land,
and when harvest came
Cheers echoed like a storm
You simply watched with a smile
The child of the Earth was hope
itself
Just a child anywhere on the
surface
Every child was a child of the
Earth
Hunger, poverty, discrimination,
violence, crime, plunder, oppression, environmental pollution, disease, civil
war, terrorism, war
No matter how dire the era, no
matter how much one struggles under tyranny
Somewhere, a child of the Earth
smiles, bringing courage and hope
As long as children of the Earth
are born, people will surely recover
As long as children of the Earth
smile, people can live resiliently
By embracing children of the
Earth, people can continue to live gracefully
The miracle of the child of the
Earth can only happen to those who believe
The existence of the child of the
Earth is the very essence of living a miraculous life
[Written on January 5, 2021. Child
of the Earth. Each person living a miraculous life. Our existence must become
hope. In memory of Tetsushi Nakamura]