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If you keep digging deeper, faster enough,
you will reveal what is hurtful to your soul.
Unstoppable and irretrievable, it will churn.
Its growling grip keeping your eyes
searching for a respite.
Wrestling with it, you will learn to master it.
Once you have come out the other side,
You will have the eyes to see beyond surface,
hear the rhythm of the past, into the future,
and spine to withstand it all, with wisdom.
Keep your eyes set forward, and dig on.
3.1.2025
Our love was tangible.
And it still resides inside.
It will grow and transform,
a foundation to another wonder.
But it’s undeniable it started here.
So I am grateful for the time we had.
I will carry it in my heart on my journey,
and bring a brighter light to the world,
letting them know what we had was good,
and that I am elevating this to the next level.
2.28.2025
It’s here, but not from around here.
The fire is still within you.
But the air, the light, the smell, the warmth all defy your memory.
Remember, all that has happened in the past does not go away.
Imprinted are the fragments of moments held in silence:
The incessant crashing of ocean waves,
Small inextinguishable ball of candle fire,
Crackling sounds of ice under your feet.
With pure honesty — no more petty calculations — implore what matters.
Not for others’ approval, not for vainglory, but for the art of life.
Decide for yourself how this chapter will go.
2.27.2025
Eyes could see infinite possibilities
in a small black circle on a white blank canvas.
But a tongue could only utter: “it’s a dot”
So then the eyes plead to the tongue:
“What if it’s the loved one seen from far away?
What if it’s a tiny bug?
What if it’s a microcosm of all we know of?
What if it’s an accidental smudge?“
Paralyzed in stupor, the tongue struggled in abeyance of doubts: “was it hatred or love I felt? Is this the truth or mere reverie?”
Time carried the body along an irreversible current towards a foreseeable fall. Determined in premeditated calmness, the heart arose.
“It’s the sun”, the heart said. “And I will believe in its warmth until proven otherwise. Let my fear of doubt wash past me, and let me carry its light.”
So the eyes lowered its gaze and the tongue spoke words of stone in low voice. The heart started to beat to its own warmth. It was as if the time had stalled.
2.26.2025
When the rain soaks through the feather,
And all the fluffs shrinks like cotton candy,
none of hubris, pomp, or bluff remained.
Just bare bones and flesh,
exposed as they are.
What else is there, but to embrace them?
Celebration remained in dedication,
not in receipt of an understanding.
Warmth in solitude, what a work it takes.
2.24.2025
너도 잘 살아가고 있길 바라.
너도 너만의 상처가 있었겠지.
나름대로 너와의 싸움을 즐겼고
그 순간 내 최선을 다했다고 생각해.
너에게 받은 상처도 있지만
나를 더 강하게 자라게 도와줬어.
후회는 없어. 나는 너를 용서하고 싶어.
우리의 싸움의 의미가 지켜지도록
앞으로의 싸움도 더 잘해볼게
2.22.2025
좀 더 집중하자.
긴장을 놓지 말고 앞을 똑바로 바라보자.
얼마나 빨리 달리고 있는지를 깨닫고
주변에 어떤 사람들이 있는지 살펴보자.
고요함을 즐기되 길을 잃진 말자.
항상 기억하자. 초심을.
2.20.2025
그 많은 어려움을 이겨내는 것이 사랑이지 않을까.
두려움과 긴장감과 모든것을 이겨내는것이지 아닐까.
어려운 시간을 버티고 조그마한 꽃을 피우는것이 아닐까.
소망한다. 우리가 언젠간 평화롭게 서로를 바라볼 수 있기를.
우리가 언젠간 서로를 소중하게 여기며 존중할 수 있기를.
우리가 언제까지고 사랑을 할 수 있기를.
2.14.2025
옛날에 만든 다짐이라도
아직 기억하고 있는걸 보면
정말 의미가 있었나봐.
내가 지켜볼께
그 다짐.
그래도 호기심을 갖고 있을꺼야.
아무리 다짐을 했어도 우린 또 가야할 길이 있으니
열린 마음을 갖는것도 좋다고 생각해.
2.9.2025
오직 뜨거운 용광로 속에서만 보인다.
짧은 찰나에 튀어나오는 섬광들이
’이것이 무엇이지‘ 질문하기도 전에
무서운, 무거운, 묻지마 망치질은 시작 된다.
달콤한 봄향기에 놓지마라, 그 집중을.
달리고 달리며 그대의 횃불을 이어가라.
그것이 무엇이 되던간에.
2.8.2025
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