What did you think or feel after writing and reading this poem?

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When did you write it, and under what circumstances?

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If this poem were turned into a song, what would it sound like?

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“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→

SEA YOU

2025-12-02

I saw the blue sky on the water surface

the day slowly dimming

what will you do now

a bird called and flew away

to become a memory

as the next journey nears its end

this gentle journey lifts off too

an embrace

a wave of the hand

see you again

I watch your back

and what you gave me glows deeper

so shall we go

I tell you

to meet a new day

About this piece

What did you think or feel after writing and reading this poem?: Let's go, buddy.
When did you write it, and under what circumstances?: When I was watching the ocean.
If this poem were turned into a song, what would it sound like?: like a bright electric riff, softly drifting into the air.

When I start

2025-09-22

About JIYUCHO owner Koyama

Began writing poetry as a student. Deeply moved by Shuntaro Tanikawa’s Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude, where physical laws were expressed in beautiful words. While wandering the world, continued writing poetry and founded a company at the age of 27. In May 2018, released TOMOSHIBI POST, a web service that allows people to send letters to their future selves. In August 2019, opened JIYUCHO in Kuramae, Tokyo. In December 2023, opened FUTO, a poetic café and second location. In August 2024, published the poetry collection The World at Last, with You and Me. Graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science. Studied abroad in Seattle, Washington, USA, for one year during university.

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