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→
Knock
Knock knock knock knock
The ache of going unnoticed
Yet to feel it
is to know I still exist
so I stay a little longer
foolishly, tenderly
Knock knock knock knock
I call in the name of “new”
I return again in the name of “courage”
Before the door called world
toward the room called reality
I go
with my friend called dream
and my partner called hope
Knock knock knock knock
That person too
that child too
that athlete, that musician
I hear them
each knocking, with their dreams and hopes beside them
and I see
they opened it
into you
About this piece
- What did you think or feel after writing and reading this poem?
- When did you write it, and under what circumstances?