If I am water, you are ice.
Our essence is the same,
we are by each other’s side,
yet we cannot be one.
If I were too hot, I would defrost you,
and you would cool me,
when you’d melt inside me.
In the end only slush would remain.
So I prefer to be cold.
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Dragon, 2000-2010, translation