come, stay and let's talk. it's a good day to be alive
In the end, it was just a room.
I sat alone in a dark classroom.
I stretched out my arm out to the window,
through giant curtains that looked like long skirts,
and let the white sunlight shine on my skin.
The shouts, the ruckus, and the chats,
All dissipated into thin air.
All that was left in the end
was this empty room.
So do not be afraid no more.
And forgive yourself.
For this, too, shall pass.
Congratulations,
For having made it so far.
12.31.2023
Don’t you worry.
All things may be falling apart,
All people may be pointing their fingers at you,
It will be alright.
Your eyes have been blessed with sunshine
on a quiet Pacific Ocean beach,
at the break of the dawn in the middle of a desert,
by the sunset in the middle of a vast pasture.
You are not alone.
I am here
with you.
12.30.2023
let us cherish each second.
they are so precious
whether you spend it alone
or with someone else
it’s a precious feeling.
let us cherish this moment.
12/29/2023
it’s quiet, but not heavy.
a clear light blue sky,
and bright airy sun ray
leans into my navy shadow room.
I part my lips to say:
“I know you are here
even if I cannot see you now.
Thank you for all you did for me.
Thank you for believing in me.
Thank you for staying with me.”
and I closed my eyes.
12.28.2023
listen to your elders,
words may be bitter to hear,
yet they are medicine
to our blindness to the world.
12.27.2023
are we remnants of our thoughts,
memories, and traces of foods?
what do we hold on to
when the world shakes us?
what keeps our heart warm
when everyone has left
our snow white party at night?
I suspect this:
we create new meaning each minute.
we breath and reach out our hands
into the future unknown
then we will arrive
at our destination soon.
12.26.2023
we must proclaim
there’s no shame in doing
what we eventually agree
is important to be done in each other’s lives.
yet we believe
and we move forward.
12.25.2023
it’s almost the end
all the regrets and glories
be laid down into the earth
and let us rejoice this moment.
12.24.2023
when the soul hesitates
the body bears the stress.
rest when such time arrives.
12.23.2023
don’t nibble on that hook
it will catch you right away
and bring you down to lower place
where you’ll have to work all day.
no way you’ll want such thing.
get out of those scenarios.
be free.
Ralph with Coffee 
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