Shadows of the Future

August 27th, 2024

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Back in South Korea for the end of summer. Flying out to California mid-September. College is going by pretty quick. ​​

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Shadows of the Future​​​​

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The boy walks those time-worn halls

eyes fixed on a somewhere far away, 

each move a careful step,

each breath held for tomorrow. 

The world offered itslf in fragments:

autumn leaves, winter chills, spring buds 

But he trades them all 

for the weight of a nod

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Late night readings lined with possibilities 

but he flips the pages too fast,  

dashing past the lines where life wrote itself ​​​​

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Only now, he stops.

he questions what he missed. 

he yearns for not what he lost but what he never risked. 

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Still, I wonder: 

Would the boy have found peace
in embracing the moment, 
if it meant giving up the future
he so desperately sought?

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