come, stay and let's talk. it's a good day to be alive
One step at a time.
In spite of falling short,
Keep walking, thinking, and writing.
Let your eyes fill with bright hopes.
Maintain the housework, keep your promises.
Cherish and remember each moment.
Embrace prudence, justice and humility.
6.8.2025
To know the difference between
when to dream and when to calculate
you needed much more clarity and courage.
The fear makes you flinch, to save your skin.
Remember, that’s when you need to be brave.
Keep your mind and body busy.
When the storm hits, it will keep you grounded.
Keep yourself under pressure.
Better to crumble now than to take to your knee
when you are needed the most.
6.7.2025
It’s been awhile.
I don’t even know what to tell you.
The world we knew drifted apart so long ago.
Ah — well, you see, I had a soul-searching journey recently,
and I discovered the song that we listened to then
was still in my memory.
It was in my upstream of consciousness,
trickling down with a cascade of effects
on my view of the world, directions of my actions, and the values I navigated the world with.
Thanks for the memory.
I wouldn’t change a single thing about it.
I hope you are having a blast too.
See you around sometime.
6.6.2025
When things that you do hidden from the public view
are pulled out into the broad daylight,
it hurts so much, like the wound after scabs have been peeled off.
Woe is the careless, the one who is reckless by the omission of details.
So the takeaway, if there ever is one, may be this:
do not attempt to appear righteous, virtuous, or proud.
In particular, fear and refrain from judging others.
For not only will it harbor resentment,
but it will also snag your ankle as you seek what your heart yearns for.
Let go of your fake seriousness, sorrow, and whimpiness.
Make light of things, but be kind and sensitive to others’ sentiments.
Be bold and face the world. Face their ridicule, cajoling, and finger-pointing.
Let them resent you for your faults. Understand and forgive them, and heed their advice.
Forgive yourself for foolishness and recklessness and vow to fix your trajectory.
Smile, and rise again when the need arises. A brighter day awaits us.
6.5.2025
Once you stop running,
the surrounding slows down,
along with your unsuspecting mind.
So keep running,
so you remember at the start of the dawn,
the pain and joy of being in the grind.
Remember how the air fills your lungs.
Understand it won’t last for long.
6.3.2025
There are no score points.
No putting in the back,
no excuse to be made.
It’s just another day on the earth,
and we are building a small fire.
We are having fun, justice, or whatever you may call it.
You don’t have to put in the effort.
It will naturally arise in you when you feel it.
Stay true to that feeling.
6.1.2025
An old couple on a small patio,
cramped together with a small coffee table in between them,
in front of a wooden balcony door wide open,
as the world waltz onwards.
I wondered if either of them would have ventured
out onto the patio by themselves
had their partner not been there.
“Are you ready to dance?”
May be a question we ought to ask ourselves, I thought.
5.30.2025
Do it for yourself.
Remember the heartaches, the agonizing tears.
The words, the kindness, the warmth,
let them be dedicated for your past self.
It will ignite into a plasma,
for the world to see — and for yourself to rest.
5.29.2025
Like drawings on the beach sand,
what looked right looks not right
as my eyes glaze over traces of my writing.
As if reaching out to the image of myself
reflected on a pond water,
only for the image to disintegrate reverberating water surface,
writing for the perfect image felt like a mirage.
Yet again, we hoist our belt and trudge on with our keyboard.
One day, it will be captured in our mind.
5.28.2025
To throw the cloak away,
not like an exhibitionist,
nor in a theatrical way,
but as a solemn abstinence
from a rugged survival instinct,
reveal what is, not what should be,
letting the blows fall, with no guards to shield,
and be fiercely exhuming “what is”,
We find the way.
In it, we find all meaningfulness that matters.
5.27.2025
Ralph with Coffee 
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