世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ

Socrates in Love, also known as Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu) is a Japanese best selling novel written by Kyoichi Katayama which was published by Shogakukan in April 2001 and aired on August 26, 2006 in Japan.

A seventeen year old Sakutaro Matsumoto stands on the red earth of Australia (Ayers Rock, so called the center of the world) under its blue sky. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. An enduring devotion and heartbreaking loss of the love of his life, Aki Hirose, to leukemia. No matter how hard he cried out for her and she will never ever come back again.

Time flies, it's 2004 and he has been living in a world trudges through everyday existence without her for seventeen years, as if half of him died with her since then. One day, the last tape of Aki's audio diary  suddenly unearthed, leading him returning to his  hometown in the south to see his old high school for the last time before it's demolished and where he first met Aki.

A bittersweet tale of young love story unfold through his memories ... ...

“It’s not the parting or the absence that’s sad.

You love them, and that’s why saying good-bye breaks your heart.” - Kyoichi Katayama

世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ

(在世界中心呼喚愛 - Crying Out Love In The Centre Of The World)

朔と亜紀

I can tell by the tears that my heart's in a crush

And it's just as I feared – that it never will hush

If it wasn't to be then why can't I break free?

If the truth wasn't spoken – why was I so broken?

I don't live without you – I still think about you

And I can't live with you – with this negative view

And I know exactly where it all went wrong

For my love for you was… far, far too strong

My love was so strong that it had to go wrong

And then I took a road that became far too long

And I can tell by the tears, I'm a fool to remember

But I know by the years that I can never surrender