Son Ombre/ The letter from the Korean Empire Army

To: Queen of Denmark
From: Korean Empire Army.
Princess, Your Highness, all my life.
I'm writing to you, you would probably have recognized my writing in a matter of seconds. You would probably have known if this letter had ever been sent to you.
I'm writing to you, I'm deputy commander.
This is not my first letter to you, nor is it the last one. I counted them at first. I cried because of the letters as much as a man never cried, but you made me feel like no one could make me feel.
It's night now, the moon is smiling at me and I'm alone. I'm still wearing my army uniform and I can spot your smell on them even though they've gone through countless washings in boiling water, your smell, your scent on my clothes.
I enjoy writing you letters that may never be sent to you, I enjoy reading them and crying from them, I enjoy missing you as time passes.
I am sorry for all the times I told you that I would continue to be there, forever, forever by your side. I'm sorry because I did not stand, I did not keep on being by your side, although I'm here and there, I'm sorry because I did not kiss you enough as I'd like, I'm sorry for every moment I had to be with you and I was not. I'm sorry for every time I looked at you and did not go on for another minute.
Your Excellency, I am sorry for everything, from beginning to end.
I'm sorry for every time I called you Your Excellency when you did not want to. I'm sorry that I did not stay with you there, I'm sorry I was born like this, out of control over time, otherwise I would have stopped the time just for the two of us to exist forever.
I'm sorry my ship has gone away, far away from you, I'll never see you again, so I knew it.
Half of my letters to you are soaked in my tears that have destroyed you, the ink has been smeared, turned into something that looks like our love – blurred with tears but still written, exists.
Your Excellency, I'm sorry I promised you this false eternity. Though you are there, always there, as far away as you were at first, and I am here with my heart that misses you like the heart of a man who has lost his sanity.
I just wanted to write the words I did not think about then, when we were together, when I could hold you.
I just wanted to write,
Your Excellency, it's me, the Korean soldier who went on with his country after all. Your Excellency, as time passes, I begin to realize that the eternity we talked about has not taken place anywhere other than the world we have built ourselves.
I want only one more day with you and not miss more, than an entire eternity and happy with another.
And I'll never forget your promise.
Though I'm sure you're keeping and not breaking them like me.

You assured me that I would continue to exist in your heart even after hundreds of years of passing and meeting in another place and another time.
You assured me that I would continue to exist there, even then.
Even when I do not recognize you, even when we may not meet in another life, but you will find me in some way and you will know when this time will come, that I entered your heart again and will never go out. I'll be there, Your Excellency.
I finish the letter with a salute to your honor, Your Highness, when the sun shines and warms you, and the moon shines in me and sends cool winds over my salty faces.
I will continue to exist there, in your heart. Do not let anyone know about us, tell this to the moon, though that's all I can do every night.
One day, this letter will be secretly sent to you and you'll read it, and if you read it now, I'm fine. and I love you.
Imagine my voice telling you these words, do not cry.
It will be years and years before this letter finds its way to you,
I hope until then to see you, if possible, just for a moment.
Deputy Commander,
Korea.