Sunday, February 23, 2025

そこにいる … soko ni iru … there we are

 Friends visit Japan

Send blossoms

Flowering us

when parental love is the question

 The historian says

When the people expect 

And demand honesty

From their leaders

It will show itself


But when we are

Deceptive opportunistic 

Liars we get deceptive

Opportunistic liars as

Leaders. We create them


Liars love our president

He is made in their image

And even if he pains them

And deceives them they take

Pride in their offspring


Once honesty and truthfulness

Were valued character traits

The ability to manage the good

That hid in plain sight and void

The evil that lurked in shadows


It is us

We parent new life

We foster and adopt

What needs care and love

It is we who shape and sustain

what she wrote

Woman entered shop thirty years ago during conversation.

Next time she came in, she brought this:

altar

 Buddha just sits there

Jesus just hangs there on cross

late at night, right here

heating system cuts in -- no

other, side by side