Mount Fuji and the Poet (excerpt)

Here is a poet
a poet singing of the magnificent symmetry of Fuji

Fuji, forgive me tonight for no reason
tears keep coming as I gaze up at you

A poet weeping
gazing up at the loftiest of the earth with its light of perfection

Calm days,
like a dream in the empty sky,
clouds born from it,
Fuji the object of love --life burning deep within him,
in the flux of the Great Art,
here is a poet enamored of Fuji


-Daisaku Ikeda-