Translation (5)

立ちどまらなければ　ゆけない場所がある　（長田 弘）

There is another place you could reach if you stop on the road. (Osada Hiroshi, a Japanese poet. 1939-2015)　

Whitman’s Song of the Open Road is a poem of moving. The road is a place for moving. But the final line reads, “Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”

STICK?!

They seem to stop on the road. And they could reach “another place.”