it’s inevitable.
the feelings imbuing your heart
when there is a touch.
there can be so much connection
in what is said and what is not said.
but without the touch,
I wonder how strong it will be.
11.2.2023
Category: Poetry
Choice
it’s a choice about which future to choose.
my heart says one thing, and my head another.
I’ve tried going with my heart before.
especially when it comes down to choosing a person,
I learned the heart can be misleading.
with people, the answer arrives only too late.
I wonder if I am making the right choice.
I wonder if I can be comfortable in the future
with the choice.
I wonder if I can make a choice without the others’ influence.
we will see in the future.
we will once again,
be tested.
11.1.2023
Everything
even if you know you will lose this fight,
give it your everything.
even if it is obvious the outcome will not change,
give it your everything
even if it means you will lose all you have,
give it your everything.
because life is lived but once
and we are given only one chance
how to live at this moment
here and now.
so give it your everything
into whatever you believe in.
10.31.2023
Upgrade
something happened.
as if a veil of intelligence was revealed,
my mind cleared, my body abided.
I smashed the ball with my racquet,
it returned with accuracy and high velocity.
as if in a flow, high speed exchange continued.
I woke up from the slumber of the average
and felt my new skin of rediscovered self.
Through sublimation, growth, and evolution,
I sensed an upgrade.
10.30.2023
Open-mind
try pushing your limit
you can do it.
believe in yourself.
it’s fairly simple.
it is now or never.
keep trying.
you will evolve
towards the direction
of your decisions.
10.29.2023
Grow
there was a crack in this mundane world
a whole new world waited beyond the crack.
I witnessed marvelous creations.
some, just like my dream, others, beyond them.
like Harry Potter, I knew I belonged there.
it is the time to grow, to leap into the new world.
10.28.2023
Talk
try talking to them.
without words,
we measure against each other
hoping to grow and protect
what is ‘mine’ against ‘theirs’
but when you talk to them
and realize that it is actually ‘us’
we will find peace
at least in this moment.
10.27.2023
Strength
as my history follows me
I am swimming faster than ever.
words to soothe my worries melt away
as I yearn to be better than yesterday.
let my work be of help, a stepping stone.
for someone yearning to be better.
10.26.2023
Meeting
our eyes met.
our ears opened.
and our minds drifted
through multiple paradigms.
as we walked the journey,
many of us felt it:
we are the one.
may us remember this
may us meet again.
10.25.2023
Final
remember each day you have endured
will crystallize to this one moment.
be prepared in all you do
all you think
and all you say.
may you have a ray of light
when the darkness arrives
may you find warmth
at the harshest storm.
rise, and rise again.
rise, and rise again.
10.24.2023
Ralph with Coffee 
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