Wa ga sakari itaku kutachinu kumo ni tobu kusuri hamu tomo mata ochime ya mo

我が盛りいたくくたちぬ雲に飛ぶ
薬食むともまた変若めやも

Roma-ji: Wa ga sakari itaku kutachinu kumo ni tobu kusuri hamu tomo mata ochime ya mo
English Translation: The prime of my life
has fallen into sore decline;
though I were to take
the elixir that flies to the clouds,
could I ever be young again?
Meaning: The prime of my life has sorely declined. Even if I took the elixir that lets one fly to the clouds, could I ever grow young again?
Commentary: Book Five Miscellaneous Poems 847

Headnote: "Supplementary: two poems longing for home"
The poet laments that his prime has long passed, and that even the elixir said to let one fly to the clouds could not restore his youth. Invoking the elixir of Daoist immortality, he acknowledges that age cannot be escaped.
"Supplementary" in the headnote means poems outside the count of the thirty-two banquet poems; two poems of longing for home are placed right after them. No author is named, but they are generally attributed to Ōtomo no Tabito.
The poet, Ōtomo no Tabito, was the son of the Major Counselor Ōtomo no Yasumaro and the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Late in the Jinki era he went down to Tsukushi as Governor-General of Dazaifu, returned to the capital in Tenpyō 2 as Major Counselor, and died the following year. Versed in Chinese letters and Daoist thought, he formed a literary circle at Dazaifu with Yamanoue no Okura and others, known as the Tsukushi poetic circle.

First line, "wa ga sakari": the prime of his life.
Second line, "itaku kutachinu": "kutatsu" means to decline past one's peak, and "nu" marks completion; the poem breaks here.
Third line, "kumo ni tobu": the power of the elixir to carry one up on the clouds to heaven. The next poem begins with the same words.
Fourth line, "kusuri hamu tomo": "even if I took that elixir."
Fifth line, "mata ochime ya mo": "otsu" means to become young again, and "me ya mo" is rhetorical: could I ever? No.
Author: Ōtomo no Tabito (attributed)
Source: Manyoshu
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