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.
Selflessness
Surrounded by colors
I wonder what I am to write
yet again with a single pen
in a single color
I try to draw the world
Knowing that arrogance
and still unable to stop
leaving even loneliness behind
on a blank sheet
only intuition moves
Within thought I could never catch it
there’s no time to think
only a something like me yet not me
moving toward the place
where something new begins to be written
That alone is certain
About this piece
- What did you think or feel after writing and reading this poem?
- When did you write it, and under what circumstances?