Allow me to seek out prudence and wisdom.
Allow me to find warmth and light
Allow me to find humility and diligence.
Walking with calm through the tempest
Holding a firm grip in what are true
And speaking with a full heart are what I seek.
1.23.2026
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Refocus
Remember what mattered to you.
Face the music. “Into the fray,” you said.
Remember the people.
They gave you part of themselves. Treasure it.
Remember your resolution.
You said, against the bone-cutting cold wind
that you’d keep your promise.
Focus.
12.28.2025
People
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
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
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
Scent
scent of a righteous person
deeply attracts many
scent of a unrighteousness
are deeply rejected by any
person who stands to judge.
be careful if you are responsible
3.30.2024
Life
Don’t worry about surviving.
Just do what you want to do.
Your life is yours; and it’s only lived once.
As long as it’s not hurting nobody,
do what you want to do.
Be honest.
Who cares.
Go.
Bye.
3.17.2024
Star
I forgive you.
You didn’t know.
Aren’t we all blind?
Don’t we all want love?
Take my hand. Get up.
The sun will rise soon.
Give it your best shot.
It’s going to be alright.
I’ll be here with you.
2.17.2024
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
Love
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
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