‘Like a Sketch in the Morning’ — Daily Poems and Essays by JIYUCHO Owner Koyama

今朝の落書き

オーナー小山が日々書く詩やエッセイ
考え事、悩み事の言葉たち

One Place

Walking on, my eyes open
I learn the shopping street is beautiful
So many colours, a person travelling slowly
I had been looking at nothing, except a few things
I think of a charming time
The bakery I stopped at just now
I bite into a baguette spread with spicy cod roe
I surely forgive everything
Like when I first learned, by closing my eyes
that there are things I can see even with my eyes closed
if I try letting go
there is a hand I can hold
I reach an obvious enlightenment
and tell people
I do not seem likely to reach an answer anyone can reach
I want to take you to a place I can reach only as myself
There was a familiar scent
when I brought my hands together at the shrine
even the one thing disappeared from within me, leaving only me
It does not matter how much time passed
not by intention, with no meaning
I smile with the expression of a clear-hearted person
An unadorned thank-you saves someone's today
the smile of that day has sustained everything up to now
Without carrying it all, growing light
to the one place where we can drift
I want to take you

Thank you for reading again today. There are countless places we can find simply by looking at a map. But I sometimes wish I could take you somewhere I arrive as though being guided, precisely because I am who I am.

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