Forget me not,
though for a time I seem
lost in the clouds,
until, like the moon that crosses the sky,
we meet again.

Meaning

Forget me not, though for a time I may seem lost in the clouds; until, like the moon that crosses the sky, we meet again.

Commentary

Episode Eleven: "Forget me not"

When a man went to the Eastern Provinces, he sent this poem to his friends from along the journey.

This poem is also included in the Shin Hyakunin Isshu compiled in the Muromachi period.
It is a poem by Tachibana no Tadamoto recorded in the Shūi Collection, and is thought to have been cited from there.

Source

Ise Monogatari

Other

On Miyoshino’s fields, the trusting wild geese too, all in earnest, cry as they draw near toward your side.
They cry that they draw near toward my side—those trusting geese of Miyoshino; how could I ever forget them?
Musashino— do not burn it today; in the young grass my beloved husband hides, and I too lie hidden.
Musashi stirrups— though you hang them in earnest, and place your trust in me, not to write is cruel, to write is vexing too.

Forget me not, though for a time I seem lost in the clouds, until, like the moon that crosses the sky, we meet again.

Forget me not,
though for a time I seem
lost in the clouds,
until, like the moon that crosses the sky,
we meet again.