Hello from Malaysia, I'm back because of the coronavirus pandemic. I'm in self-quarantine and trying to study Japanese again. I was looking through old poems that I used to discuss in class with my Japanese teacher Mizuki-sensei and came across this one. It summarises where I'm at mentally and where I want to be in a relationship. The Japanese is much more beautiful...Read More

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just...Read More