Waga iwaro ni yukamo hito mo ga kusamakura tabi wa kurushi to tsugeyaramaku mo

我が家ろに行かも人もが草枕
旅は苦しと告げ遣らまくも

Roma-ji: Waga iwaro ni yukamo hito mo ga kusamakura tabi wa kurushi to tsugeyaramaku mo
English Translation: Would there were someone
going on toward my home!
Pillowed on the grass
"the journey is hard," I'd say,
and send that word back to them
Meaning: If only someone were going to my home! I would send word with them that the journey, sleeping on grass, is hard.
Commentary: Book Twenty Frontier Guard Poems 4406

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems of the frontier guards sent in rotation to the provinces of Tsukushi in the second month of Tenpyō Shōhō 7, year of the wood sheep."
If only someone were going to my home, I would send word that the journey is hard: the poem laments having no way to send word home. It is the third poem from Kōzuke. It states plainly his wish to tell his family how hard the road is. Iwaro adds a suffix to ie, "home," and yukamo is a dialect form of yukamu.
The author, Ōtomobe no Fushimaro, was a guard from Kōzuke; nothing more is known of him.

The first line, "waga iwaro ni," "to my home," names the house of his family.
The second line, "yukamo hito mo ga," with the wishing moga: if only someone were going there. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "kusamakura," "grass pillow," is a pillow word for "journey."
The fourth line, "tabi wa kurushi to," "that the journey is hard," is the message.
The closing line, "tsugeyaramaku mo," "how I would send them word," uses maku, a nominal form of the volitional mu.
Author: Ōtomobe no Fushimaro
Source: Manyoshu
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