Won't You Come and See

Won't You Come and See - meaning Summary

Invitation to Witness Solitude

This short poem addresses a listener with an invitation to observe loneliness. Through a single image—a lone leaf from a kiri (paulownia) tree—it compresses a broad emotional state into a small, vivid moment. The poem asks the reader to consider how an apparently modest, natural detail can stand for solitude, shifting attention from abstract feeling to an immediate scene that embodies and makes that feeling visible.