Tanka By Wakayama Bokusui

Iku yama kawa Koesari yuu Kaba Sabishii sa no Hatenan kuni so- Kyou mou tabi ni yuku Should I leave behind How many mountain's rivers To find a country Where I may not feel lonely Today too, journey keeps on. *How many mountains rivers should I pass over, Question the country of no loneliness- Today also I keep doing my journey. My humble and very poor interpretation of a wonderful Tanka that one of my neighbours taught and explained to me in Japanese during a bus ride..I'm afraid that is too hard to catch and give all the things that it says between the lines, it sounds so much better in its original tongue.. I tried to keep the pattern of the 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. Am not perfectly happy with it so if anyone has a better translation, please help me. Thank you!