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→
Become a Destination
Become a destination.
The world is richer
than a lifetime
spent only traveling.
One day
become a destination.
Just as there are people
who are happy
to see you arrive
be someone
who welcomes another.
A lifetime
is far too short
to keep setting out
meeting
and meeting again.
To travel
is to learn
the happiness
found in the places we visit.
It is also
to know
how precious
a destination can be.
We are fragile.
And so
we find
the years
layer upon layer
in the people we meet
in the lives they have lived
in the landscapes before us
and learn
to hold life
close again.
Then one day
may we ourselves
become a destination.
May people arrive
and find themselves
embracing life
once again.
Then
our journeys
will continue
richly
into what lies ahead.
A journey
is where
countless lives
meet one another.
Today
Tomorrow
it is always new.
If one day
I could become
a small part
of someone's journey
If one day
I could journey
to you as well
The journey
would surely
be new
again.
