Friendship
Written by: Eugene Dimon
Translated by: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Published in: Free Verse Poetry Volume 1
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Even in the sudden gust of wind
Sweeping up sediment in a maddening whirl
—There is something for you
Even in the tree with no shadow
To intercept the punishing sunray
—There is something for you
Even if your lifeblood
Were spilled heartlessly on the ground—
Even then you could live fully
If only you could gain but one true friend
(Eugene Dimon was the director of the recreation center at the Pomona Assembly Center)
Eugene Dimon was the director of the recreation center at the Pomona Assembly Center. Tsuneishi Shisei originally translated his poem from English to Japanese.
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