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People

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It’s with people where you found it.

When you heard their voice,

fiery anger, heavy sadness, spring-like bliss,

when you listened to their story of hundreds of thousands of agonizing minutes,

their regrets and jokes of the past, the joy of what is now, and hopeful of the future,

that’s where you found it.

You gotta go back to it. Find a way if you cannot see it. Remember the honor of purpose of work.

Remember the past. Do not look away. Remember. Own it. Carry it.

We’ve got work to do.

4.20.2025

Longing

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Fortunately – or unfortunately –

I glimpsed over at the nocturnal green cover

William Matthews’s poetry book.

The flash of lazy summer sky

over the three-story apartment in Brookline

zooming by like a blurry window scene in an Amtrak car.

The sweet warmth – that somehow imbued under my skin

from the hollow cool atmosphere above –

radiated in waves, like softly swinging hammock

with a glass of wine and a love song from radio head.

I blinked. I stared ahead towards what was to come.

Warmth – I chose to believe what I felt in my heart.

The glowing red yolk over the horizon –

graciously engulfing all my worries and sadness –

gloriously radiating, unapologetically, childishly, happily.

my arms are wide open without the usual guard

for I chose to live once more again.

6.24.2024

Level

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A part of me wants to stay fluid;

I want to be one with the world.

But when I look back, it’s weird.

I saw concrete things build the work.

I found that finished work was better

than I found the unfinished ideas.

there are times to answer to these needs

than to heed to others’ advice.

4.23.2024

Love

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do I deserve to be loved?
I realized things have changed
and that I am not in mud any more.
but the memory of the dark water
lingers too close in my mind.

do I deserve to be loved?
can I ask to be loved?
can I be free to love?

to find out,
I’ll be a bit more honest,
I’ll work hard,
but not to earn the love,
but to protect those that I love.

9.27.2023

Focus

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I am grateful for this fiery focus
one I don’t know where it’s from,
but suddenly appears one day
and solved all problems.

yet I wonder
if it is consuming some part of me as well.

7.18.2023

Walk

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there is a vast field
you can walk as much as you want
and there will be more for you to walk
overarching it is the ocean blue sky
here and there a few white mushroom
clouds sprout like giant popcorns
reach out to them as much as you want
it will quietly stay with its grand compose
this is the world
and you are walking on it.

7.2.2023