Chaperone

The old piano plays John Strauss II's waltz 'The Blue Danube' Under the dim chandelier lights She dances alone an unmarried woman Behind her a Charlatan struggles to win her heart and breaks her innocence, But the Chaperone, she looks after her well And nobody could approach her on this occasion! I watch the Chaperone's deep blue teary eyes like ripples And I imagine her beautiful younger days? Her secret smile utters We both are passing the sad sixties Isn't it? It's really funny this old man peeps into the dancing hall in his sugary dream and the sepia glossy photograph fades away at the dark room in the morning? [For five blocks after I left home, I walked like a man with something to do, someplace to go- Takuboku Ishikawa/'Sad Toys] nimal dunuhinga