Miyazaki Heroine

I.                    Dragonfly

Your cheeky smile caught my eye from the start.

No, nothing like that.

It irked me.

Prodding me from my doubts and self-pity,

insisting I look at life and laugh

when I’d rather retreat.

Your smile won’t allow it.

Your faith in me is an utter surprise,

especially when I have no faith to spare.

You love the things that make me odd,

just when I start wishing I could be something else.

My smallest gifts are miracles in your eyes.

And even when I am tired,

and sure there is no more magic to be found,

I know that for you

for you, I’d find my faith again

and catch you wherever you are.

II.                  Dragon

This journey was unasked for.

Do not meddle in the affairs of kami;

their ways are strange,

and yours are the strangest of all.

Myth given form,

childhood story made real -

Oh no,

I never would have presumed to ask for this.

Silver silken ribbon,

you stand out in the night sky.

Are you lost too?

I am afraid I am not enough sometimes.

I understand only a fraction of the things here.

Everything sane left in me says to doubt you.

Perhaps I’ve been touched by your land too long,

because there’s more in me that says

you have always protected me.

And the only thing better

than being able to say your name,

your true name,

with no more fear and doubts of who you truly are,

is the sound of your voice

saying my true name

remembering,
and at last knowing who I truly am.

Song Choice: A selection of songs from Miyazaki films done on piano. 

This poem is for Magpie's Tales 288