faded things
I have become that ghost I once dreamed about. I haunt the lonely streets walking by those who look right through me. This is not a sad state, for those fleeting, flickering “what ifs” have all been resolved. I was going to disappear soon enough. Deep down I knew I...
the whole thought, and more
ramblings from 5/22/21 I have come to understand that there are not always nor nevers with you. I have also learned that reality is not mine to make. Or rather, maybe I’m at least a little suspicious that’s not the case. My belief in my word doesn’t carry the same...
a love letter for those who read
Every person that doesn't get to know you is incredibly unlucky.
a dream 7/30/24
You don’t need to find yourself. You never lost yourself. Just be honest. You don’t know what you want. You know it’s not the person you’re with. You know it’s not the place you are. You are still who you are. Everywhere you are. Whoever you are with. Through the...
a thought 7/29/24
I have thought about it recently. Life has been better. Truly tranquil.
last days of june
I walked before, smoked during, and slept after the rain. Thinking about the future I missed out on what color the trees were.
100
I have written the same thing one hundred times, and one hundred times I have shared it. Have I learned nothing? Have I learned it all over and over again? Continuous lessons in what it means to be alive are branded onto the same scared spirt housed in freshly...
三十
And here I am again telling stories to tell stories about. Next week we’ll recount how wonderful the twists and turns were. Next month we’ll remark that they were enthralling and exciting. Next year we’ll reflect and try to build new stories. Next decade we’ll...
early march
Everything is going by so fast now. I have grown comfortable in waiting. Soon things will continue to be as they are. Even sooner things will change. I haven’t appreciated the trees or the clouds as much as I would like. 今度は今度 今は今
rambling 2/5/24
I had been mourning the loss of this friendship for a time already. Is that why the final blow barely even stung? In fact it is more freeing than anything else. No more pressure to try and keep up. No more attempts that make me feel I am not enough. Months of...
orange
I used to have a weight in my pocket that held me down. It connected me to the earth. I grew tired of always carrying it. I was bored of the charade that it embodied. I handed it off out of a vague idea of amusement. The distance between myself and the ground has...
why
Now that’s the question The only one that matters And the best part is I don’t know That freed me once but never again
embarrassment
I didn’t do a lot of what I wanted to this year. I didn’t write letters or work on my handwriting. I didn’t travel as much as or with whom I wanted. I didn’t keep the friends I thought mattered to me. I didn’t take any serious action or initiative of my own. As soon...
five of pentacles
I was brought back to my locked room again By sheer, unhappy randomness of fate. I gazed upon a canvas stained with pain. A portrait of a heart that could not wait. I delved into the palette, hues laid bare. A frozen moment where I feigned concern. Youth's vigor and...
sonnet twenty-three
I inflicted familiar pain today. My youth's ache, something loathed, a constant strife. Though now it's gone and joy has found its way, I am left with loneliness, a strange life. The cold endured, an old relentless song, Until I prepared to break the refrain. To set...
october 1
I look forward to this time of the year the least. It is when both the best and worst memories I have coincide. Every other day I’m remembering. Today I said I was tired of always being left behind. Then I laughed for hours.
a thought 9/22/23
It matters that I worry about the noise I hear under my car.
a question 9/20/23
i can’t go again. not because i can’t handle being there, but because i can’t endure coming back. i have withstood much. the presence of demons, the attacks of devils, communion with angels and even being utterly cut off from the very Silence i worship. the weight of...
a dream 9/19/23
I hadn’t been lost in blue like that in a long time. She mimicked the sky the way she locked eyes. I don’t know who reached for whose hand first, but holding hers felt natural and practiced. I knew the shape, the size, the creases. The first time felt like the...
a thought 9/10/23
even now there is no one else i would rather have text me at 12:26 in the morning
august 2023
I haven’t written much this August. What I have written is poignant and wretched. Again it is something I would share if asked, but again you will not. In short the continual self-actualization I have seen this previous year has been repetitive and revealing. The...
je ne regrette rien
Nothing? How can I? The other day I watched clouds stride across the sky. For an hour the herd slowly dispersed until the field was it's beautiful empty blue. They're always the same. A cloud never forgets who they are. They remember everything. Every moment....
rambling 6/10/2023
I am sorry for the things I have written. Every word is a selfish wish for cruel things. Each truth is cunning and every lie is a plea. I kill myself slowly with each formulated thought that is shared by pen or voice. Even this is self destruction. The only place...
larger conversations
i have always been, and will always continue to be, exactly who i want people to want me to be
realized
Upon arrival I realized why I’ve wanted to come here so badly most of my life. Everyone avoids me. I only talk to people when I initiate it. I’m effectively invisible most of the time. It’s a sublime type of loneliness I’ve never experienced before. After the years of...
chained liturgy
Religion is the most effective, self-inflicted trauma a person can choose if they want to change. In both my zealotry and my apathy, I am cruel to others. Unfortunately, it is an ordeal for me to strike a balance between the two.
another february second
I do have moments of sublime contented clarity. Instances where the green in the trees and the blue in the sky are enough. I smile more often than I let on.
january dreams
I keep having dreams about getting lost in Tokyo. They're the loveliest dreams I've had in a while.
a thought 1/13/23
I would rather be understood and hated than misunderstood and loved.
a dream 9/8/23
What are the words for today? What speech sparks reality? Last night I dreamed about many things. Every moment felt real as I lived out a day that will never happen. What makes this moment more true than that? How are the interactions with ghostly strangers worth any...
新年の抱負
Become.
a dream 12/1/22
How lucky we would be if He would overlook our existence.
a thought 11/3/22
It was nice. In that self-sabotaging sort of way.
twenty years to the day
If the eight year old version of me could see me now I know what he would think. First he’d be surprised we made it passed twenty six. Never thought we’d be so old. Next he would be glad we could grow a mustache. He would note that we’re not as tall as we thought we’d...
the way they are
They think “but surely not I” when it comes to her. She has told me so much and I know her so well, surely not I. She says she hates, and wants to be left alone, but I am the exception. She can’t be what she says she is, I know her too well. Her exaggerations about...
a thought 9/19/22
There is something remarkable about knowing a house intimately. Being able to walk about in the dead of night without bumping into any furniture. Understanding the difference between the unique creeks of the doors and floorboards. I remember about twenty years ago...
dream at 3:13
At first I tried to write the words I needed to say to you. With each pen stroke my eyes grew ever more blurry. When I could no longer understand my scribbles I spoke. You couldn’t understand any of the things I had to say. I said you were crazy, but I didn’t mean it...
midnight visitation
You are a stranger. It is easy to tell strangers the truth.
two a.m. tarot
I asked the same question I always ask, And I received what I always receive. It would all work out if we just unmask, But in my heart I know that is naive. We lock away the words we wish to hear. Instead saying the ones we know are safe. We build up lies with the...
夏至
Some things are. Even if you are afraid to name them.
a dream 5/22/22
You had been given a new distraction. An obtainable goal to reach. Just a pick me up to get you out of this rut. In the end we both know it isn’t something you want. Once you are bored again you will loosen your grip and those sweet daydreams of summer sun beams will...
i’ll always listen
I had a thought the other day when we talked The thought that I’m only catching up with you That I’ll only ever hear your stories after the fact I learn about things that happened months ago I don’t see you struggle or grow as time goes on I wondered if it would...
long awaited
When I was young I’d imagine myself overlooking the sea as the sun set into it. Wine in hand, atop an old stone bridge, I sigh and experience the beauty of the day ending all alone. These type of dreams are always solitary. I can never picture myself in them with...
a scattered thought 4/10/22
It is strange that those who are labeled as society’s most out of touch are the ones who often rightly diagnose others. Whatever mental barriers the rest have built up make them blind to the simplest of facts. Do the rest of you not see that cloaked flame dancing...
ramblings 3/24/22
At the place I stayed in Switzerland they had a packet for “re-entering society” that we were encouraged to read through before leaving. A lot of it was tips about what to do if overwhelmed by large groups of people. Reading through the papers though I realized...
28 of eternity
The stars mean nothing. They just are. Just as you are. Simply existing.
a dream 2/22/22
I could not sleep last night. The voices of hooded monks liturgically chanting echoed in my ears. As their voices grew louder an old thought violently resurfaced within my mind. I am and am not as wonderful as I think. Who was it who told me that? I pretend not to...
a thought 2/21/22
We read into signs, symbols, and situations then relate them to ourselves in the most vague ways.We find the ghosts and demons we search for even if in the end we have to create them ourselves. We desire to make everything so personal we forget everyone else is just...
the resident
I spoke to the woman in the dress. She said nothing but seemed lonely. I said it was alright if she stayed. She nodded and left the room. Since then I have not seen her.
part of an old thought
I hope I still sometimes cross your mind. Whether it's out of spite or admiration doesn't really matter. I don't think I do though. That seemed to be the one thing you and I couldn't have in common. I imagine the world more minuscule than it is. But you, you see...
a dream 1/2/22
Your purpose is in the moment. It’s who you can genuinely be to yourself and others at the point you are in. A lot of the time you don’t need to go out of your way, you just need to be you. Being yourself and doing what you do is a greater purpose than most people...
四番目
蜘蛛の巣で道に迷うな無の世界
solstice
I have written much this year. Most words I will never share. Yet on this, the longest night of the year, I will reflect and tell you where I am. I failed to do what I promised I would never do, and instead returned to doing what I hate most. Somehow this seems like...
a thought 11/26/21
We are rarely afforded two things. Understanding and closure. Though most feel they are owed them.
二番目
暗い空シロフクロウか寒さかな
whispers of faeries, ghosts, and clouds
I am burdened with words. I dare not say them aloud. I hide myself like my words. I can never break this spell. I am without saying words. I will not be without as well.
a love letter
You are the only one I fear. I am afraid to tell you anything, but I want to tell you everything.
rambling 11/1/21
I’ve hidden a lot of the things I wrote in August. I’d share them again if you’d ask. Perhaps it was a turning point in Silence during those countless hours watching ripples. Or was it the mass unhinging of others’ minds that caused my prolific pen? I remember the...
part of a conversation
Each time I’ve lived or spent time with someone I like, I look forward to disappearing again. Why do you think that is? I am easily bored. That seems sort of sad. To be so easily bored by others. I have been wondering if it is and if I should be.
一番目
静かだね葉が落ちているガシャンかな
“home”
I have never felt at home. Not where I live nor in any of the places I travel to. And the purpose behind traveling is not to find home. The reason I do it is to see everything. To experience this world in its fullest. To know why this place is not home.
another year
This last year I’ve slept in twelve different beds, none of them my own. I miss views more than people, and it feels being alone isn’t hard anymore. I have been able to meet myself fully, the entire created me that has been shaped by time. Tomorrow I will meet myself...
a thought 9/18/21
I remembered something about myself in these past few days. Disappointment seems to have been what triggered this resurfacing in my mind. With these memories I am more inclined to believe that people rarely, if ever, change. I am still who I am. I am not different...
view of eternity
I lived thousands of lifetimes before then and thousands since. Still that brief blink of a moment within my perpetuity felt like the start and end of it all. I came here to understand human love. Residing in my own sphere, watching the pattern repeat itself...
part of a whole thought
I am ashamed to say it, but I wished to be God from the moment I knew him. How could I not want to be? With all the power I had, it was never enough to bring my dreams into reality. The most I could do was torment others and curse myself. Weak imitation, even making a...
sonnet twenty-two
Searching the past for forgotten relics. Remembering those things that reshaped you. Comedowns from women and psychedelics, Singularities you cannot redo. You fight furiously for fulfillment, Emotions like hot knives against your skin. To defeat your fears you need...
a dream 5/2/21
With a grin the old man pointed toward his head and spoke. “Soon I will be gone and everything up here will pass on into the everlasting, omniscient Silence. In Silence there will be no fear nor want. No pain nor tears. Ego cannot exist within it. It knows and is....
things to be proud of
fomes peccati
I still believe everyone has their words. Secret seals placed upon their hearts. Incantations binding together their mind and will. Such magic can be easily broken. Everyone has their words. Fire that will burn up those seals, test their will, and sap their strength....
take me to the uttermost
He stared fixedly upward as if his eyes were devouring the blue. He needed to be present, to understand and feel what the sky had to offer him. There was no more security beyond this Samaria. No promise that this color would exist in the Uttermost. Strangers watched...
the framework of is
The framework of is, and how can I be. Rulesets, religions, rituals, and rites. Well worn roads, narrow paths less traveled. Destination, wherever, always in sight. It is what it is despite these, O me, O Life. Whether verse in play or breath in wind. Ask why until...
small things
Every time I talk about her I think “this might be the last time I ever talk about her” and a sense of foreboding overcomes me. It’s the same kind of excited tension you feel when you consider rope or broken glass. That fleeting, flickering “what if” of never agains....
to a year of warmth
I have plenty of journal entries, notes on dreams, bad poems, love letters, and short stories that I have written over the years. Many of these works involve temperature, namely suffering in the cold and desiring heat. Warmth was always the ideal, the out of reach...
three beasts
The Minotaur I sat and closed my eyes. I was the Minotaur raging and fighting against the Man. I fought with pure fury in self protection. All I was in that moment was hatred toward the Man who came to kill me. I would have justice for his crimes against me. A...
⬾өө
You sit in lonely intimidation, pushing away anyone who is interested. You have a kind smile though and tranquil eyes that impart encouragement without effort. Your gentle touch has the weight of the moon behind it. Your few words contain the influence of kings. Your...
a question 1/22/21
What more do you need? You are somebody, somewhere. Continue to walk.
culmination of an idea
I resent the thought that family is everything. That’s not to say I don’t love my family. I have a truly wonderful family. However to believe that one’s family is everything seems at best blissfully ignorant, and at worst short sighted and discriminatory. To love your...
a thought 12/25/20
Every tragedy we build in our heads is born of the words left unsaid.
tenet
Silence between words. Lasting momentarily. Exist to talk. Talk to exist. Momentarily lasting. Words between Silence.
rambling 11/25/20
Today I sat outside in the cold for the first time since being warm. There were so many thoughts fluttering about in my mind. Music hummed along with the sound of the wind through the trees and the ghost of a feeling began to well somewhere distant in me. I thought...
a thought 11/18/20
There is nothing wrong with being sad. I would rather you be happy, but there is nothing wrong with being sad. Sadness might even be better for you.
reflection
It has been over a year now since I began my search for something more real. I spent days atop mountains in solitude and Silence searching out truth. I fought demons at night and struggled against powers I had never known. My faith swayed continually from physical to...
sonnet twenty-one
People seem to pine for fabric roses. Timeless petals that will never scatter. Cold lifeless wire bent into dead poses. If they are beautiful does it matter? Replicas akin to reality Giving sensations of satisfaction. Complacent with this abnormality Everyone buys...
a thought 10/21/20
I’ve started to believe that pictures really do capture part of your soul. We all haunt each other digitally.
whisky. neat.
I didn’t see her come in but when I turned around there she was sitting at my bar. The woman slouched, propping herself up against the counter with what looked to be all of her strength. I was going to ask for ID but before I got a word out she muttered perfectly,...
firefly
How do you capture that excitement as the wind picks up and you know a storm is rolling in? Endless anticipation in infinite electricity. Fringes rising on static. Senses heightened by feelings. I want to live as the lightning bugs do.
a question 1/17/20
The older man told me “Stop asking such pointless questions and ask what you really mean. In Zen Buddhism we mediate until we reach the centers of ourselves, the very bottom, at which point we realize we are a part of everything. So for the next question you ask, ask...
1:11am nostalgia
“It’s an ordeal.” he replies when questioned about the scars he wears. He would love to share how he got them, but he hates to dwell on it too much. For the briefest moment his eyes flash back and forth and his lips slowly separate as he remembers. Then he snaps back...
inspired
When I think about my inspirations I always think about who has the best words. Take my father for instance. When I was young, my father and I barely ever spoke to each other. On the way to school, picking me up from someone’s house, going on walks, or at the dinner...
shades of pink
“Do you see those flowers over there?” she asked as we walked down the lane. “There are more shades of pink in those petals than you can imagine. You could spend hours, days, even years studying them and never discover all their hues.” That was how she saw everything....
a thought 9/16/20
I have spent so much time since then defending what they can never understand and what I can never explain.
in my dreams
There are times when I’m dreaming where you show up. I realize I’m asleep when that happens. I always have to leave you because I know it’s not you. How can I dream of you? I can’t even fathom you. What I see are the poems and prayers from long ago. An incomplete...
everyone else is moving
Have you ever been on a road trip where you see those white windmills in a stretch of open land? Hundreds of them are spinning slowly but then there is one holding completely still. That sight is the only way I can describe how I feel.
a thought 8/31/19
Have you ever said a word over and over again until it doesn’t sound real? I have that feeling about myself sometimes. I need to look in the mirror to make sure I’m still me.
from the first words you wrote
“Someday” I once thought to myself, “Someday I’ll fall in love with a pretty girl with long blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She’ll have a charming laugh and a cute little nose. I hope she will stay by my side. She’ll be smart too and full of dreams for everything we...
fever dreams
It started as a dream. A slow waltz in the midnight air. Illuminated by a full moon and the glimmer in her eyes. I was lost in her light. A smile of stars in the sky. Kissed by the chill of winter’s frost. Heated by passion’s flame inside. Oh what a dream it was. To...
forever ago
I’ve hit this point now where I realize I am not being known again It’s hard because I don’t want to be known by those around me However there is that familiar aching in my chest when I exhale And with each breath I think of the names of those I want to know me So...
these wings
What if this world was the wing of a butterfly? Intricately woven patterns telling a story when seen. Maybe everything on this side is mirrored spiritually on the other. As the butterfly flaps and the wings connect, it makes a more full reality. Physical and spiritual...
con
Surrounded by books jealously guarding their wisdom. Like a thief I crack them open and steal what is within. Surrounded by people frantically searching for something. Like a philosophic charlatan I sell what I have stolen.
blizzard
There is a blizzard outside I can see it through these walls of windows.There is a blizzard outside I can hear it making the foundation creak.There is a blizzard outside I can feel the cold creeping on the fireplace.There is a blizzard outside I can smell the air that...
the constant question
For the past 5 years I have had the event “Are you happy?” in my phone’s calendar. Every Sunday I am prompted with this question. Yet I don’t think I have ever actually answered it. I look at it and go “Hmmmm. Am I?” without any further thought. It is funny because I...
for the person sitting next to me
It is nice to be alive. And it is interesting that being alive at the same time as you is probably all we share in common. Or at least that’s all I'll ever know about you. As for me, no that’s probably the only thing. Just alive and here in this moment is enough about...
a dream 11/18/19
In a dream there was a girl I had never met. A girl I had never seen. She had long brown hair that swayed like trees in a breeze. Her eyes mirrored butterfly wings opening and closing gracefully. When she smiled I felt a great weight on me. It was something heavy that...
trembling
There is this trembling in my chest. It’s like a shiver you’d feel standing in a cold summer breeze at dusk. I’m not sure I can properly explain it. It’s all passionate numbness. It’s exciting and sad. It’s like watching leaves dancing until complete darkness sets in....
childish
Tonight someone told me it was love. I had described what I felt toward her, and he said it was love. But that it was a childish love. A love that was written out in stories. It was not truly a romantic love. It was the love of someone who had given up in life. It was...
years gone thought
There was a girl who I wanted to propose to. I loved this girl. She never made me feel the way sunflowers make me feel though. Her warmth didn’t compare to the heat of a brick wall in winter. Living with her I never felt as alive as I did driving 100mph down the...