Mata mo naku tada hitosuji ni kimi omou koiji ni madou ware ya nani naru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

またもなくただ一筋に君思ふ
恋路に惑ふ我や何なる

Roma-ji: Mata mo naku tada hitosuji ni kimi omou koiji ni madou ware ya nani naru
English Translation: With none other like it,
single-mindedly I love you,
yet what am I then,
I who have lost my way upon
the one straight road of love?
Meaning: I love you single-mindedly, as I have loved no other, and yet I have lost my way on the road of love. What, then, am I?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 674

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
I love you single-mindedly as no other, he says; what am I, then, lost on the road of love? Pointing to the paradox of losing one's way on a single straight road, he shows a heart that has lost itself in the very intensity of its love.
The author, "the Ōmiya Former Chancellor," is Fujiwara no Koremichi. The son of Provisional Major Counselor Fujiwara no Munemichi, he rose to Chancellor and was called the Kujō Chancellor and the Ōmiya Chancellor.
Poem 678 of this book uses the same phrase, "koiji ni madou," and calls for a guide for a heart lost on the road of love.

First line, "mata mo naku": "like no other."
Second line, "tada hitosuji ni": "single-mindedly." "Hitosuji," "a single line," echoes "koiji," "the road of love," in the fourth line.
Third line, "kimi omou": "I love you."
Fourth line, "koiji ni madou": "koiji" likens love to a road, "lost on the road of love." It is the same as the fourth line of 678.
Fifth line, "ware ya nani naru": "ya" is an interrogative binding particle closing with the attributive "naru," "what am I?" He asks himself how one can be lost on a single straight road.
Author: Fujiwara no Koremichi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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