"Feelings Awakened by Mirror"
My beautiful one gave it to me when we parted,
but I leave the mirror in its box.
Since his flowering left my sight,
autumn waters have no more lotus blooms.
For year's I've never opened the box;
red dusts coats the mirror's green bronze.
This morning I took it out and wiped it off,
peered into at my haggard face,
and, done peering, went on to ponders sadly
our sweet memories then again...
- Bai Juyi
"Mga Ala-Ala sa Salamin"
Ito'y binigay sa akin ng aking mahal nang siya'y lumisan,
at itinago ang salamin sa kanyang lalagyan.
Nang siya'y di ko na nakita,
tagtuyot, at wala ng bulaklak ang mamukadkad pa.
Ilang taon kong ito'y di binuksan;
pulang alikabok dito ay nanahan.
Nitong umaga'y, ginalaw at nilinisan,
at ito'y itinapat sa abang mukha,
doo'y nakita at malungkot na naalala
mga masasayang ala-ala naming dalawa...
~> Un0h-Rai
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