Skamashi Motsu

By night the sea winds whisper
A berceuse of salt and foam
Forgotten as they have the notes
Of this ashen ballad's home

In the place where we were born
The mountain slumbers, and I
Beneath our quilt of stars
A hundred billion children's sky

But what dreams noble Yasur
I muse, the ancestor to us all
Are you standing silent vigil
Now until the heav'ns fall?

This unbidden wonder seeps
Through my breath, a weary sigh
Is sacrifice enough to earn
From the mountain this reply

Thunder and torrent!
And showering of flame
A thousand cities smote
My curiosity to blame...