The answer to the question above is "his friendship with the girl with a different race than him" which Okita revealed in the excerpt above. This significant detail is clearly shown in the last part of the excerpt which described Okita's and the girl's last name. This poem is written by Dwight Okita, a Japanese-American playwright, novelist, and poet.
A complex situation that often involves an apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another.
