Vol. 108 What is the past as it Should be?

I walk. alone. among many others.
walk forward. to the future.

I saw someone who looked like me and nothing like me. walking toward me.
When she was closer, I recognized that she was myself who did not get the illness at age of  19.

She saw me as well as I saw her.
She held hand of a little girl who looked like exactly of her. I saw them.They stopped walking and looked at me. but I kept walking. looking at forward.
​The past that I thought I should be is now behind. 

The wind moves me. the soil moves me.
the water moves me, and the heat moves me.
​All the elements in the universe allow us to breathe --

to live. 

the sun is setting to call out the day.
the stars and moon shine in the sky.
We lift our hearts up. 

The warm shining lights poring all over our bodies, 
Blossoming flowers out of our bodies, 
Delivering the flowers into the world 

The past may shadow us. But we live with them.
In this moment, I let go everything I have; I surrender.  
I wish to be a vessel of the Universe,
to be in service to take an action of the will. 

I vow to transform whatever the life has given me into a flower, and share it with others.

​many others who I encounter. ​

Photo by Yoshiko Usami