“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