Q u i d a m

To let it go

Where's the water that once washed away everything?

Darkening with curtains, welding every shades

of isolated change.

How strange an emotion it is!

Have you ever held frayed hopes for so long?

But it is again another year,

of black twilight and unknown fears.

As I stroll with past years,

I ponder, gaze softens with every cost,

I don't know how it is,

I don't know how it will be,

Can you promise to be not drawn, drown

in the waves of the riverside?

Into my right, afternoon rays seep in,

Into my left, evening darkness lurks deep

Over my head, azure butterfly flies—

Have I wasted so many years?

In the barren field, a cave full of blossom fire—

Waiting to be picked up!

Don't wait/ change/ fear/ hold back the gears

of silence. For days, you will see emerald dark—

With ruins of crumbled dust, I see, I definitely see

a change, I gaze to feel.

I blink before seeing a shell of blowing,

Leaving, balancing, winding down in your body.

— 1st January, 2024.

Yes, another year! Can't believe 2023 is gone in a blink of eyes. Hope this year will bring peace and joy in your life! <3 I'm low-key missing '23.