Dear Future Me Dear Future Me
“Dear Future Me” is a series in which Shohei Koyama—poet and owner of JIYUCHO — delivers poetic words in Japanese and English, like letters to his future self that trace the subtleties of everyday life. I hope this becomes a place like your mailbox where postcard poems arrive.
You can read the previous series
“This Morning’s Drawing” here→
Today
Saying a lot of small things
Making a lot of small songs
Stacking one small thing upon another
Setting aside for a while the longing for brilliance
Talking a lot of small stories
Taking a lot of small detours
Together with the beauty found along the way
We move forward one day at a time
Yesterday today tomorrow
Was here am here live
One day one day one day
Moments that cannot be filled by grand things alone
Small things warm our cheeks
Quietly steadily we live now
Moving toward a humble and earnest form
Not waiting for miracles
We go to meet them
Saying a lot of small things
Reading a lot of small songs
Together with the wonders met along the way
We move forward one day at a time
Yesterday today tomorrow
Was here am here live
One day one day one day
On a clear night
We leap with joy at the falling snow
Big flakes my mother says
Softly steadily it piles up
The world returns to a blank page
A voice of freedom calls
And we remember we can go anywhere
Not waiting for dawn
We go to meet it
Yesterday today tomorrow
Was here am here live
Today today today
