It’s slow in growth,
but keeps you grounded.
Change is imperceptible,
yet, undoubtedly, it’s real.
You may find yourself doubting its worth,
but when the sky roars and thrashes about,
you will know what it was all about.
10.7.2025
Roots
Tag: live
Warmth
Like a smile, it is bound to be ephemeral.
It is soft and fragile like a white tissue of paper.
As ephemeral as the sweet taste of the cotton candy
dissolves on the tip of a tongue,
it dissipates into the memory.
A cold winter may be ahead, but cherish this moment fully.
Embrace it, soak your senses in it, and bask in its glow.
Believe you will rise even if it rains.
Do not dwell at the shallow water. Go forth.
10.6.2025
picking
Instead of chasing after the bread crumbs,
look back at your foot steps
and wonder what kind of impressions
you have left upon others.
In the end,
didn’t how you treated others leave you a stronger mark
than how many bread crumbs you’d collected?
10.3.2025
Hope
In spite of all these scars,
all I had hoped was for you to be okay.
Looking at your eyes, I see all is good.
I am glad I did not relent to resentment.
I am glad there was warmth.
10.2.2025
Forgive
Can you forgive those who hurt you
because they thought the pain will do you good
but instead it has inflicted a lasting scar
whose roots reaches deepest core of your bones?
Them again,
have you ever hurt anyone
under the grand name of
“good intention”?
10.1.2025
Philosophy
One that does not waver
against the fortune nor the disaster.
One that is the foundation of it all.
That’s the path I hope to walk.
9.30.2025
Stamina
Instead of pointing fingers at aggressors,
I’d tolerate the insult
and forgive them.
Who am I to judge them?
Let me have the stamina
to do what I must do.
9.29.2025
Dinner
Would we meet again at the end?
Like how we end the day,
return to the dinner table
and chat about what happened during the day —
would we meet again at the end?
9.28.2025
Like
Regardless of what it is,
It is such a good feeling to know
that there is something that makes your heart beat fully.
Yes, it may look silly,
it may not be “productive”
but you will know
when your heart feels full,
and you just want to keep going.
I hope more times like this will last.
9.27.2025
Restless
A fire flickers on a flint of wood.
It is undeniably flammable,
yet so ephemeral and minute.
Let it become large, and it engulfs.
Let it dissipate, and no one will remember.
Let your eyes mesmerize in its glow,
and the time will slip by.
Stay awake. It may be painful,
but this is the only way.
9.26.2025
Ralph with Coffee 
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