Tag: discovery
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Last chapter
Why do I feel shame for longing and wanting Oh right It’s not you You throw shadows at me Yet I am silent And cloaked I am not your woman And you are not mine Your words are not my words My tears are not your tears Let me try again I am a phantom…
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The art of letting go
You Fucking you Why is it always you Why do I come back here When will we let it go We came together slowly and we broke up slowly I waited for you then I waited just as long for this to die We got lost in translation Lost in time What did we do…
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Questions and answers
Today is a morning like any other Saturday morning, but I find myself reflecting on the memories of my grandfather who passed away a decade ago. My grandfather was a learned man with progressive ideas, he went to university at a time where only one university existed in Korea. He also lived during the Korean…
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Both sides now
Everywhere I look now I see both sides, the strength and weakness, the duality of life Every victory has inside it a loss At the height of winter I let my old dreams die Dreams of peace and loneliness and stillness and patience I am not yet ready to tell my story I was but…
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Dream catcher
I came home and no one told me to leave but no one told me to stay either It wasn’t love exactly it was just kind of Mediocre The pain just passed through me now Like nightmares through a dream catcher I think about generations of women Walking free
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Night flower
Love is what I didn’t want love to be Here in the heat of darkness I sit and balance and shake and wait without waiting How can I want you perfectly? I never knew courage until I tried to reach you You could be the talk and I could be the walk I couldn’t sleep…
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A Good Man and a Good Woman
Heartbreak Like the depths of anxiety and depression Feels so exquisite Like 1600 volts through the heart The organ of remembering His best friend died Buried six feet in your brain That you didn’t know how to touch The space he left because he knew how to feel those things When I think of how…
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Colosseum
The space between what dreams men give us and what they actually do, when they run the other way scared with no explanation Is the measure of their power Or rather The ghost of power Like the height of the rows of the colosseum After centuries of plumagging The measurements only architects can estimate In…
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Begging for chains
Spinoza said the greatest problem of philosophy is why we beg for our chains I used to be desperate to love someone so that I could abandon myself The way my father taught me: Love means letting go, love means sacrifice, love means being selfless, it’s brave to discard yourself for something else, you’re strong…
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Break
There’s moments when you know you fell in love, then there are moments when you know you’ve fallen out of it. Do you ever argue with someone close to you and it’s at the point where you really question if you’re going to talk to this person again And you’ve already texted a paragraph and…
SUBLIME COURAGE 