Knocking on Heaven’s Door

If we think that history is just one masochistic endless cycle after another, there seems little point to living. But if we think time is moving towards an inevitable destiny, then we should figure out what the end times look like. If we believe that the trajectory is moving downhill into a pit of destruction, [...]

When I have Fears that Cease to be

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high – piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And feel that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand [...]

Math, Logic, Math

‘Manners are not taught in lessons,’ said Alice. ‘Lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort.’
‘Can you do Addition?’ the White Queen asked. ‘What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?’
‘I don’t know,’ said Alice. ‘I lost count.’
‘She can’t do [...]

Bluebird

Bluebirds don’t sing in sickness
Their voices crack through hardened air—
The harshest air;
It’s on its own.
Birds don’t whisper through the stillness,
Nor fight the tides of sea.
They watch and wait;
“When will someone
Come for me?”
Come for me, through hardened air—
Call for me, though cracks can scare.
Make my day from wisdom
And not from dark
Despair.

기도문

매일 우리가 하는 말은
역겨운 냄새가 아닌
향기로운 말로
향기로운 여운을 남게 하소서.
우리의 모든 말들이
이웃의 가슴에 꽂히는
기쁨의 꽃이 되고
평화의 노래가 되어
세상이 조금씩 더 밝아지게 하소서.
누구에게도 도움이 될 리 없는
험담과 헛된 소문을 [...]

Diamond

I think that if there’s ever a prominent part of my teenage life that I will remember 10 years down the road, it’d be how debt-laden it is, and perhaps the financial insufficiency that I experience, as have those around me.
But I’d have to say my debts were mostly self-brought upon. I could have just [...]

You are not alone

Everytime you cry, it is a part of your soul you’re releasing.
The painful memories, the joyous moments of life. It is these tears that unite us all together, together with the earth, together with the rest of us humans. Because they eventually evaporate as our hearts move on, and they join the tears of the [...]

Cycle

It is intriguing, what absence does to one’s emotional memory.
After dinner, a while ago, I met my former band mates as well as my former band instructor. I remembered my dissidence during that time, in the band, and the memories that were concocted in this cauldron of rather mixed-up potion. There were bad ones, really [...]

UFUJ…

I miss Lola, I really do, badly.
She was my first friend in that place.
She was the first person I can completely talk  to as who I am.
She was the first person that understood my thoughts.
She was the first few people that is actually able to talk to me without talking.
She was the first girl whose [...]

My Love Will Get You Home

If you wander off too far, my love will get you home.
If you follow the wrong star, my love will get you home.
If you ever find yourself, lost and all alone,
get back on your feet and think of me,
My love will get you home.
Boy, my love will get you home.
If the [...]