LAST SAMURAI

: "Katsumoto San .... I would like to remember our conversation ...."

spring was friendly coloring petals
sakura
the snow has melted merged in splashing
lake water
"They are all perfect ...."the hardest part of reciting your final
written at the end of the samurai
a stabbing on a war
in the name of loyalty, devotion to moral principles
- traitor soldier emperor decreed
kill all warriors
you remain an eternal vow
perpetuate themselves in power
tradition, maha true philosophy, "serve"
then
jaded arrows whizzing
the thunder of cannon were massacred
the soldiers, one after the sudden numb
silent battleground
tight-lipped
kneeling enemy: Amazed!
burned to dust thrown you in time
but as if etched footprints poem
enduring inscriptions on stone ....


From: The Last Samuari 2003
Directed by Edward Zwick with Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe
Billy Connolly, William Atherton