Autumnal Processions

Pledge
Lanterns
Glimmers
Lights

Life of gratefulness
Like a wish

A wish
Richness
Promises of love
Promises of love
Laughter
Light
Abundance

Life of gratefulness
Like a wish

Promises of love
Light
Spring
Promises of love

Beaming silhouettes feeding the glimmers
Of lanterns filled with covenantal pledge
Embalming the sacrificial hues
Of a day dressed with unique ascending sensations
While the moving procession is blessed
With colorful astonishments
The oil is set to be burning
Throughout an entire life of gratefulness
To a midnight marriage of convenience spells
Offering laughter in ribbons made of ordinary riches
Gratifying the most common promises of love
Once given without a heartfelt shrine
That used to hold the likes of a golden holy land
But glows now in sharpened embellishments
Enlightening a bosom never to flourish
Like a wish made out of flowers
Cut before their own blissful springtime


Words: Alex Henry Foster
Translation to Japanese: Momoka Tobari