The Name of the Sin/罪の名前
When Lady Fate awakened, she gazed at me upon her whims
“You’re such a lovely baby! A girl like you deserves a gift!
I mean, of course, the special sort
I think I’ll leave you with a little magic...”
Born with a with’ring body, and sunken eyes just like my frame,
The ones who saw this figure would yell for help or call me names
“Get back, you beast! Begone, you fiend!
Crawl back into your cave, you make us all afraid!”
...I’ll keep on hiding back how sad it is instead- that way,
My sorrow can’t escape through tears that make it harder to pretend I’m okay
Though, suppose this selfish wish of mine was granted in reward,
Maybe the pain would pass and give me back a friendship that’s worth living for
One to praise the planet, one to praise that I was born
That’s what I’d like to think and likely need someone to make me sure
“Can you explain your hatred for rats?” He asks, a sightless boy
The herd breaks into laughter, “They’re dirty vermin best destroyed!”
“That’s all it takes? Then my mistake.
We’re actually alike, because you too, are blind.
So long you’ve hurt this ‘monster’, ignoring every tear she’s shed...
...Of mice and men, I wonder- who’s really dirty in the end?”
To their surprise, their step aside, and in the girl’s defense,
“Go now, and don’t forget!”
I never ever thought he’d answer to their taunts that way,
And though I’m happy, I don’t know what has me crying on and on out of shame
Oh suppose I had the power to put someone in my place,
I wouldn’t ask to have a pretty face, just one you couldn’t come to hate
But no matter how I pray, no matter how much pain,
Nothing’s enough to change, my chest to ache with “Why am I the same?”
“They say to blame yourself, but it isn’t true
There’s so much I love, so much I wish you knew
I’d like to comfort you, if words alone will do-
Wait, just wait! I’ve got it settled! I won’t though, for the common petals
Pure and white, I’ll search and find, in bloom, a lily like you!
...When she’s awake, I vow to say it- but for now, I’ll leave a clue.”
The goddess saw this boy and a wicked laugh was her reply
“You like to see her too? That’s exactly what I had in mind!
Come here, come close- let’s start the show!”
And with a flash of light, she cast to cure his sight
She cursed the lily next, like the nightly sky, her painting spread
Beside that tainted flower, she woke the girl and softly said,
“Oh my, oh me! What might this be? A gift from him I bet!
You’d better take it, then!”
Ah, I’ve surely sinned- to even think of him that way,
I should accept this as a sentence to the heart I’m holding in, but it breaks
“If love is such a crime, well, maybe death would be more kind!”
All at once, he appears to wipe my tears, “I swear I’ll never leave your side!
So until the day we die, until the end of time,
Let’s write the story of a normal girl who lives a normal life!”
...And did you see that sign?
Watching the spell break like a broken dream, I see
It says, “You’ll be fine.”