One Of Those Days Poem by Hiroshi Satow

the other day
a colleague of mine
happened to know
I'm a poet
she read some of my pieces
she made some compliments
I was happy

then I went home
rainy, I shut myself
up in my room
with my cats around me
playing and talking with them
with the windows wide open
listening to the sounds outside
smelling the things outside
lonely sinking in the dusk
daydreaming till the middle of the night
feeling as if I were nothingness itself in the universe
which made me the happier