Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Amabie アマビエ

 

 アマビエ

Give illness a face,

frightening and funny,

a strong-smelling

charm of the

sea.

 

 

We wanted

a faith healer,

a gatekeeper, 

but got instead what we forgot - how to live with death.

Between

sickness and health,

island wisdom

still rises from the sea.

Amabie 

meets spirits and earth,

dives

into

hope,

lives underneath

this epidemic,

in  our dreams.

Seems she's especially 

seen in hard times.

Why not?

We always  welcome

a storyteller

who makes

fun of our

scared  faces,

our races for cures.