KOMACHI

Hey Komachi silent wings on the land

Go flying through the dreams of Akita

And the heart of Japan


Listening to the storm

Minshuku shutters down

Restlessness descends

I take a walk around

Oh I can see you in the rain

Shooting through the night

Burning like a flame

 

 Hey Komachi, bring together people alone

A long long journey well it seems so short now

They see you and they see home


Soothing in the night, forceful in the day

Whispering like leaves

Disappearing like sea spray

Oh here’s another mountain side

Over under through, smoothly she glides


© Peter Graham 2016

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