夢ぢには
あしもやすめず
かよへども
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
yumeji ni wa
ashi mo yasumezu
kayoedomo
utsutsu ni hitome
mishigoto wa arazu
In the land of my dreams,
again and again and again,
I rush into your arms.
But all of those times
are not worth a single glimpse
of the real you.
- Ono no Komachi (834?-?), Japan's most famous female poet of the Heian Era