<Down this road>

<Down this road>

Seoin Lim

What a wonderful year it has been

With you and with me

For we’ve been together

For so long and so close

Just turning my back

To my beloved friends

It is torture, it is suffering,

It is distress it is agony

Goodbye, my friends

Who has been so long

Who has always stayed with me

Who has always stayed beside me

The memory of you

It will never fade away

For every day without you

I will remember with guilt

I shall go,

To where it is hidden

The world I do not know

Where I fear to go

But I shall, I shall

For life is an adventure

For life is a new start

For life never is the same

Although, that does not mean

That I will not look back to my past

I will stare at the way I’ve gone through

The road of happiness and joy

Now we go two different ways

I and my companions are separated

But I shall wave for goodbye

Until I cannot see you

For that is friendship

For that is the memories we’ve shared

For that is closeness and companionship

For that is royalty

When I cannot see you

When we’ve finally gone our ways

I shall stare at the blankness

For a long, long time

My memory will drift to a long river

Flashbacks in my mind

The river flows gracefully

Down the waterfall of memories

Then I will walk along my own way

For that is my own way

But every now and then

I will stare at the empty sky

Thinking out loud,

‘Now that is my way,

Though separated and torn

I shall follow this road’

Though I will mutter

These brave words

In my mind, I will

Cry with sorrow and grief

This year was all I needed

The happiness and joy

the friendship and closeness

The harmony and understanding

I shall go, I shall go

Oh, how many times I am repeating!

For I cannot walk one step

When my feet are glued

However, I shall go

I shall go, I shall go

As I am quietly filled with grief

I finally, at last, stroll my own way

Down this way,

Everything changes

Down this way,

I no longer see my friends.