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Month: January 2025

Paint Love on Their Walls

To paint love on their walls
Down those long hallways
Meandering through their mind
From yesterday to their future
I wish I could

For them, for all their kind warmth
I wish I knew how to do more
I wish I could do everything they need

I’ll have to settle for my presence
And occasional smiles
And when those fall
Yield in acceptance
That nothing lasts forever

January 9 – 13, 2025

I feel like giving up today.

I don’t understand people. I don’t always know why some things are ok but not other things. I get things wrong all the time that other people seem to just understand. Often I just don’t get it.

I can’t fix this ridiculous brain — I can only try to manage. But how do I manage this? I’m just going to keep making absolutely stupid mistakes. Others will keep wondering what the hell is wrong with me. It’ll happen again, and again, and again. I don’t know how to manage it.

Mitorigeiko

Ki-ken-tai-ichi you take in through your eyes and your feet at the same time, feeling that floor rumble beneath you

Fumikomi declared with a strong foot decisively says “I am here, I am committed, harmonized, alive”

We symbolically kill, each death of them or us represents us climbing upward 

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