今朝の落書き

In a thin veil of mist
falling sunlight shines

Even trees I thought had withered
begin putting out new buds

My heart, mistaken about the span of my life
wakes with a slightly foolish yawn

When we can write what we could not write

when we can say what we could not say

when we notice what we had not noticed

we become a little new

On a road where birds can be heard
I pass someone walking a dog

Even the heart I thought I had lost
begins to make a new light

All of me, mistaken about my future
looks with a slightly heavy blink

towards a new day
the bird that called has flown away

Thank you for reading again today. Welcome back and I'm home. See you and see you. Over these past two weeks or so, I have had many conversations like that. People I have known for years. People with whom a new closeness has begun. Each time we exchange smiles, joy fills my whole body: I am here in a wonderful present that my slightly earlier self never imagined. Those reunions, encounters and conversations make me want, once again, to keep living and growing, freely and naturally. Savouring honest feelings and our days, let us live today. Let us live tomorrow, too. All of you as well, if you would like.