It is a primitive painting with no depth
So true
It is but like a background picture
How the years have drifted away since


A pond painted in reminiscence. The pond was situated by the girls’ dormitory of Niirada High School of Nagashima Aisei-en where the painter graduated. It was her early days of oil painting and the poem starts out with a dialogue: “The painting has no depth”. Indeed there is not much depth in the painting and looks more like a set background picture. Yet memories of her high school days come back to her as she looks at the painting, making her realize that so much time has passed.