release

release
a lesson
not learned
experienced
touched
let go
exhale
breathe
groan
murmur
tighten
pressure
pain
still
scream
articulate
speak
listen
watch
receive
consider
and move
and move
and move
and move
and move and

Center of the World

no more time for wasted time,

wasting away

with loved ones close by

forgotten friends nearer still

worried about impressions

as if I was the center of the world

Language

“We, today, have a language to celebrate waywardness, but we do not have a cultural language to bring people back home.”

– Makoto Fujimura