By Yuki Akemi, TIWP Student

Under the apricot tree you stand
Waiting for me
You smile a thousand sun smile
I wave and say hello

Sweet and kind like honey
Delicate beauty like a glass flower

I wave and say hello
You are eager to talk
As always I happily listen
Hoping the silence will be drowned out by your voice

Sweet and kind like honey
Delicate beauty like a glass flower

I choose to walk home
Just so I can talk to you
Before I have to say goodbye

Goodbye is a little thing
But for me to say it to you is such a chore
I don’t want to stop talking to you
It’s what I look forward to each day

I was too much of a coward to say how I felt
Now you’ll never know

I still say sorry
But we both know that it wouldn’t be enough
I still say sorry
Hoping you can forgive me
But we both know that it wouldn’t be enough

Delicate beauty like a glass flower
But if you drop one
It’ll shatter into a million shimmering pieces

I now walk home alone
Without you by my side
It’s so lonely
I don’t even enjoy it
When you aren’t here with me

I wish my apologies would be good enough
But even I know that you shouldn’t forgive me

I miss you every day
No one talks about you anymore
Even the people we called friends
But I think of you every day
And I wish you were here