The Wind Chime's Song

The mulberry shade has not shifted; the shade beneath the mulberries has not moved. In a dizzying instant, my past life has turned to dust. We had only just come to know each other, become friends, fallen in love, and pledged ourselves to one another, when in the blink of an eye, this life came rushing upon me.

After parting in my previous life, I knew not where or when I was now. You destroyed one life of mine; give me another in return. Even after tasting life and death, I still cannot endure all this sorrow of parting. My past was as it was, and this fleeting life is as it is. Life, death, wealth, and rank are in Heaven's hands. How could I refuse the trials this life has set before me?

The years flow by like still water. I cherish the present and remember the distant past. A beauty like a flower, yet am I myself or not...? When I opened my eyes again, everything had changed.