Au koto o tsukihi ni soete matsu toki wa kyō yukusue ni narine to zo omou - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふことを月日に添へて待つ時は
今日行く末になりねとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Au koto o tsukihi ni soete matsu toki wa kyō yukusue ni narine to zo omou
English Translation: When I wait to meet,
adding months and days to days,
waiting on and on,
I wish today itself might
turn into the time to come.
Meaning: When I wait for our meeting as the months and days go by, I wish that today might become the promised day to come.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 680

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that when waiting for the day of meeting as the months and days go by, the poet wishes that today might at once become that day to come. It expresses the impatience of one who waits, unable to bear waiting for the promised day and wishing time would leap ahead. Taking up "tatamu tsuki" of the preceding poem, 679, it sings of months and days, and its first line, "au koto o," is the same as that of 626 and the next poem, 681.

First line, "au koto o," means "our meeting," the same line as the first lines of 626 and the next poem, 681.
Second line, "tsukihi ni soete," means "adding months and days."
Third line, "matsu toki wa," means "when I wait," singing of a waiting love like the second line of 626, "matsu nite toshi no."
Fourth line, "kyō yukusue ni," means "today, into the days to come," using the same word as the first line of 683, "yukusue wa."
Final line, "narine to zo omou," means "I wish it would become," with "ne" the imperative form of the perfective "nu" and the binding particle "zo" resolved by the attributive "omou."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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