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.
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Even in a fading scenery
the unchanging truth keeps shining
people come and go meet and part
believing they can go anywhere while standing here
I gaze at a beautiful one carrying the feeling of a traveler
I try to slip away from the words I always use
yet find myself saying again
I see or that is hard
It is like a notebook I once bought
opened only in the first few pages
then left untouched
in the pile