It will start small and grow.
Continue to believe in yourself.
Hold on to the steady peace within you,
Slowly, firmly, keep going
11.30.2025
Sand
Month: November 2025
Sacrifice
Because I have been in that role before,
I recognized the facial expression of a person
Who excused themselves for the betterment of others.
For the greater good, we make a decision
where we put others ahead of us,
and believe that we have done the right thing
to keep the justice in this world.
I could not walk the path knowing it’s hurting others.
More than my own comfort,
I have craved for peace of mind, a sene of meaningfulness.
11.28.2025
Revisiting
Opening the black door,
I walked into fragments of the worlds I remembered.
As I traced my footsteps,
I noticed disconnections between each chapter.
With each fragmentation,
a part of myself was left behind,
along with the relationships I had then.
As I start to travel them back,
I feel heard. I no longer feel alone.
All those places, the weathers, the embraces, and the warmth,
they are with me in my heart.
11.26.2025
Connect
Before connecting with others,
I needed to connect with my childish self.
I know he is there,
wandering in the streets of neighborhood
that no longer exists on this earth.
I sat down on a bench
that only we could know about
and started talking to him in writings.
The mundane memories, the feelings, and the thoughts
whatever we could think of, we talked about it.
The more I talked, the more clearly I could see him.
And I recognized someone had shown me the way.
It starts from us. The change, the connections.
11.24.2025
Hug
My dear past self,
if I could meet you, I would hug you.
I would tell you this: “it’s okay,
you’ve done your best,
I am grateful for what you have done.
And for what you feel you have come short for,
I forgive you.
I hope you can forgive me too.
I wish you can be at ease.”
11.23.2025
Remnants
Just because I thought they were over,
just because time has passed,
just because I moved to a new place,
the memories of the past did not disappear.
Under the guise of magmatic anger
laid grief.
It will take time to uncover it.
11.22.2025
Encounter
A chance encounter spiraled into a chat
the more we exchanged words,
the more emotion smeared in the air.
So does the back of the envelope calculations.
When the match is over,
we walked our paths,
and parted our ways.
In the whirlpool of thoughts,
things that mattered remain.
What truly meant to me in the past,
and what will matter in the future as a result.
Without chasing after shiny and sweet things,
let us walk the walk
so that we can find what we were looking for.
That will be sufficient.
11.20.2025
Memory
Like a warm and sweet perfume scent,
it keeps my heart warm.
Reminds me of why I started this journey.
It’s too tempting to remain where I was,
but the moon is rising
as the sun falls.
It was like a dream.
One I did not want to wake up from,
but one that eventually called my name
to wake up.
11.19.2025
Build
Believe.
Act according to your belief.
If you’ve been lying, that’s fine.
Ask for forgiveness,
be honest,
and carry on with your new heart.
11.18.2025
Living
Perhaps at the back of my mind,
I had slid one foot lingering in the back door
as we philosophized over “to love or to survive”.
Like a reflex against my naïveté,
words escaped my lips quicker their meanings.
After a long darkness stopped by
(long to experience, short to remember)
I returned to speculate:
that it is both the hands of the heart and the mind held together
that leads the dance of this life
peppers in living, with saltiness of surviving.
So, all of this is just to say
thank you for conversing with me that day
in the darkest time of that night
under the moonlight.
11.16.2025
Ralph with Coffee 
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