Sayonara, Itsuka (Goodbey, Someday) Movie

Sayonara Itsuka Poem

To live is to prepare for goodbye;
For loneliness is a friend who will not betray
Shiver not into pouring love instead buy an umbrella;

Believe not in happiness, even in the passions of love
Confess not your love even if you would die for it;

For love is like a season;
It comes and goes to decorate life’s boredom;

The moment you call it Love,
it melts away, like an ice sculpture…

Goodbye someday
Happiness lasts not forever, as despair lasts not forever.

Somedays there is goodbye;
Somedays, theres is Hello

At death,
some look back on being loved;
While some look back on having loved…
I shall look back on having loved…

Guy is noble. Very nonreactive. Stern face. Only smiles and rewards woman sometimes. Woman is the one pursuing him. His pride does get in the way of love because he couldn't muster the words to say I love you. Well that's Japanese culture for you.

I like the general idea of this poem which coincides with Zen/Tao/Yin and Yang. Talks about fleeting moments of life. How things are impermanent. But in the end where it talks about "looking back" I think this brings up a feeling of remorse and regret. Almost as to say that this person is attached to the past. I say almost because choosing to say that he/she "shall look back on having loved..." He/she is aware that the past is long gone.