平和ゆえに

平和への渇望が薄れ

平和の尊さを忘れ

あまつさえもその平和を捨て去ろうとしている

かつて私たちは平和を忘れ　疎み　踏みにじった

しかし血だらけの凍った地平からでも

必ずいつも緑豊かな平和な大地が現れてくる

それはこの現実が理想の地平の上にできているからだ

確かに現実は理想を覆い隠してしまう

しかし理想を見失えば現実もまた霧の中を行くようなものだ

いくら舟の舵をいじっても

霧の中を進めば

暗礁に乗り上げるのは目に見えている

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Reality Is Built upon the Horizon of Ideals

Because we live in peace,
our thirst for peace grows faint,
we forget how precious peace is,
and, worse still,

we are even trying to cast that peace away.

Once, we too forgot peace,
shunned it,
and trampled it underfoot.

Yet even from a frozen horizon,
streaked with blood,
a green and peaceful earth
always emerges again.

It is because
this reality is built
upon the horizon of ideals.

Certainly, reality can conceal
the ideals beneath it.

But once we lose sight of those ideals,
reality, too, is like
moving through the fog.

No matter how we work the helm of our boat,
if we sail into the fog,
it is all too clear
that we will run aground
on a hidden reef.