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Direction

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Have I strayed?

Over the years, I have learned by experience

that to be a “good person” may need an effort.

It takes the fortune, the willingness, and the environment to display such disposition.

Nevertheless, I have found it to be all the more worthwhile in the end.

It opened the door to a kind of generosity I dreamed of.

To keep a kind heart takes an effort.

But it is worthwhile in the end.

7.29.2025

Distance

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I have sensed something,

like tracing a trail of breadcrumbs,

a feeling like something is out of place.

Some had commented in passing,

as if there’s a stain on my face I don’t recognize.

But only recently have I started feel it,

a sense of distancing, a sense of refusal, or a sense of defiance.

What is this? Has this always been here?

It’s a curious phenomenon, one that calls my immediate attention.

7.1.2025

Dream

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I looked around,
and saw an endless horizon of sand dunes
next to where I stood I saw a sand pit
and thought I glimpsed a white glint of moon
reflected on a puddle of water
I started to dig deeper,
and quieter and darker it grew,
like the iris of the eye held in old memory.

after a long tunnel of darkness,
I thought I saw the light,
fleeting away like a rabbit.
and when I caught up to the other side,
I found a small kid with a crown on his head
the small prince asked if I’d seen a red fox.
I nodded and passed him by
then sat by an old pilot nearby
and borrowed a lighter.

As I flicked it on,
I saw a flare lighting up instead,
growling amber like a burning jacket held
in the hand of an old withered man
leading a long line of lost ones
in a dark and bitter winter.

when I woke up,
I saw the sunlight sparkling in a glass cup.
I took a sip of water,
and went for a run by the river,
leading to the ocean of an endless horizon.

9.17.2024