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・昭和20年12月、上野駅地下道 /December, 1945 and Ueno station Subway 

 

昭和二十年、終戦直後。大空襲で焼野原となった東京で
親を亡くして、ひとりで生きていくことを強いられた子供たち。
彼らは「駅の子」と呼ばれた。彼らは誰からの助けも受けられずに次々と死んでいった。
(NHK 「駅の子/語り始めた戦争孤児」)

 

ただ、ここに、この詩を 人知れず亡くなっていった 名も知らぬ子どもたちに捧げる。(2018.8.15 草)


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わたしは君子 11歳
父も母も空襲で行方知れず
幼い妹と弟と三人で地下道に暮らしている

大人たちはわたしたちのことを駅の子といって
地下道にうずくまるわたしたちを
汚いものをみるようにして通り過ぎていく

朝になり ヤミ市にでかける
おじさん お芋を売ってください 一本でもいいから
ここに10銭あります これが最後のお金です
妹と弟がもう3日も食べてないの

たった一本のふかし芋
妹と弟に半分ずつ わたしは一口だけ
それでも背中とお腹がくっつきそう
冷たい泥水をのんで
小さな声でりんごの歌をうたう
赤いりんごに くちびるよせて だまってみている青い空……

少しばかりのお芋をたべると
妹と弟はわたしのひざで眠りはじめた
ろうそくの灯りが妹と弟の赤いほっぺを照らす

きのうはすぐ隣の小さな兄弟がうごかなくなって
きょう触ってみたら冷たくなっていた
助けてあげられなくてごめんなさい
ごめんなさいね ごめんなさい

夜の地下道はしんしんと冷えて
しもやけの指先が痛い
お父さんのコートを首までかけて丸くなる
お腹がすいてなかなか寝付けない

お父さんの懐中時計も
お母さんのサンゴの指輪も売ってしまった
もう売るものがない
わたしみたいな子供の働くところもない

明日はカラダを売りにいこう
まだ十一だけど
このまえヤミ市で買った口紅をさしていこう
あぁお腹がすいた 寒くて眠れない
さっきからくちびるの震えがとまらない

神様仏様 どこにいらっしゃるの
どうしてお国はおにぎりひとつさえくれないの
わたしたち明日は生きているの
どうかどうか 妹と弟だけでいいからたすけて

 

 

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(・昭和20年12月、上野駅 地下道 )

・* December, 1945 and Ueno station Subway


Just after 1945 and the end of the war. In Tokyo which became a burned field by a big air raid.
The children who could force to lose a parent and be living by oneself.
They were called "child in the station". With receiving help from no one, they were dying one after another.
(NHK "the child in the station/war orphan who has begun to tell")

This poetry is offered to the children who don't also know the name of which they were dying secretly only and here. (2018.8.15 Grass)

 

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I'm a 11 years old of man of virtue.
Whereabouts is known to neither my father nor my mother by an air raid.
I live in a subway by young younger sister, younger brother and three people.
The thing by which adults are we, a child in the station but.
We who crouch in a subway.
I decide to see something dirty and am passing.
It'll be a morning and I go out to a black market.
An uncle Because the corny one selling a potato is also fine.
This by which I have here 10 sen is the last money.
Aren't my younger sister and younger brother also eating on the already 3rd?
Only one steamed potato
For my younger sister and younger brother, half I, only a bite.
Still a back and a stomach seem attached.
Please drink cold muddy water.
A song of apple is sung with low voice.
♪ Blue empty... which informs red apple about a lip and becomes silent,....

Only a little, when potatoes are eaten.
My younger sister and younger brother have begun to sleep by my knee.

The light of a candle lights up a red cheek of my younger sister and younger brother.
The next small brother don't move any more right now yesterday, please.
If I touched today, it became cold.
I'm sorry not to be helped.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

After a subway at night gets cold with the mind.
I have a pain in a fingertip of a chilblain.
I even risk my position in the company, and it's dismissed from father's coat circularly.
You can't get hungry and go to sleep easily.
Father's pocket watch.
A ring of mother's coral has been also sold.
There will be nothing to sell any more.
There are also no places where the child who looks like I works.

I'll go to sell a body tomorrow.
It's still eleven.
I'll point at the lipstick bought at a black market before this.
Well, I'm hungry, it's cold, and I can't sleep.
Shiver of a lip doesn't stop from just now.

The God Budda Where are you?
Why doesn't your hometown even give one rice-ball to me?
Will we live tomorrow?
How is it, Because it's good, please help with only my younger
sister and younger brother?