mercedo's Journal: Alphabet Poem

Recently I posted a story in a Jondiii's journal, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=145730&cid=12337781/, in which I told Japan's alphabet forms a poem. Then here's my translation attempt.

Everybody has young days, but everyboby's gone.

My life's who's life? It's not last long.

Today I came over the deep mountain of being.

I dreamt a light dream, but now I'm sober.

Then the combination of the last letters read as ' I'm going to die without charge.'

As a matter of fact, this poem was thought to be invented by a prisoner who's accused of a crime of treason. Probably one of the greatest poets in Japan's literal history, Kakinomoto no Hitomoro, main poet of Manyoshu.