Lemon

It’s natural to feel confused by things you can’t change

Like those who had no idea their youth was gone, I’d lost myself without realizing it

Maybe I was the more serious case, because she knew exactly what she’d lost, whereas I was trudging through life, ignorant of what I’d lost

The imagination is just as painful as reality. No, it’s more painful. After all, what you imagine has no limit or end.

why would we need politics or diplomacy? People say there is but one law, that everyone’s equal before the law, but they have no clue. Nope, they sure don’t. The law isn’t some machine, and people who deal with laws aren’t machines, so how could it be applied equally every single time? I believe the law is divine. We can’t expect powerless humans like us to understand the ways of God! Maybe the law is actually an all-knowing, mighty being. Or a force you can’t measure or fight or avoid! Or maybe it’s a will …

If there’s no ambiguity or flexibility in law

brimming with joy and terror, almost soaring into the radiant June dusk

tank top with shorts,

that his illness wouldn’t stop there.

With me are my mother and little Hye-eun, a guilt no one knows about and an abiding loneliness