Thank you so much!
Oh yes, I had a feeling it was from this anthology - I even found it online, but in pure Japanese unfortunately, no transcription whatsoever...
I'm sorry, but if I translate you here the Russian version, could you please tell me if it resembles any other Akiko poems, if its not too much of a bother?
I'm asking because I've found another Russian version and comparing it to the English and Spanish ones I saw previously, the 3 are absolutely identical. So I'm really starting to worry that my poem is not just a more poetic translation, but smth else with similar motives.
the Eng/Sp/another Rus version:
I'm not talking about the way,
I'm not thinking about the future,
I don't know my name,
But here I love, I do.
You look at me, I look at you.
and the poetic Rus one:
Together or each his way,
And what are we called, or what [comes] next
We didn't ask about anything..
And we don't swear till the deathbed
We love, the both of us just love.
You see, the notions of "I" vs "we, together"; "asking" and "knowing"; "deathbed"; "we love" vs "we look at each other" - there are quite a lot of differences, even language adaptation taken into consideration, so I waver...
And there's no Japanese-Eng anthology of her poems somewhere on the inet?
Your help is wonderful, thank you very much again!