Awanu ma wa madoromu koto no araba koso yume ni mo miki to hito ni katarame - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢はぬ間はまどろむことのあらばこそ
夢にも見きと人に語らめ

Roma-ji: Awanu ma wa madoromu koto no araba koso yume ni mo miki to hito ni katarame
English Translation: While we cannot meet,
if only I could drift
into sleep a while,
then I might tell others
I had seen you in a dream
Meaning: While we cannot meet, if only I could doze for a while, I might tell people I had seen you in a dream; but I cannot sleep at all.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 485

If the poet could doze off while unable to meet the beloved, he might tell others he had seen her in a dream, but longing will not let him sleep at all. The poem conveys the pain of a sleepless love in which even meeting in a dream is denied.
Poem 445 in this book asks the other not to tell people of a meeting that was only a dream, while this poem says one cannot even tell people of a dream, forming a pair through dreams and talk.

First line, 'awanu ma wa', means while we cannot meet.
Second line, 'madoromu koto no', means dozing off.
Third line, 'araba koso', means if there were, a supposition formed by the irrealis with ba and strengthened by koso, answered by me in the final line.
Fourth line, 'yume ni mo miki to', means that I saw you even in a dream, using the past ki.
Final line, 'hito ni katarame', means I would tell others, closing with me, the perfective form of the conjectural mu, in answer to koso in the third line, and leaving as an aftertone the sense that this cannot be done. Like hito ni kataru na in the final line of poem 445 in this book, it sings of telling others.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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