As a Man

Image source: My private collection. Estonia, Tallinn, Pääsküla. Sometimes I mess up as a Man As a lover As a friend As a coworker As a son As a businessman I sometimes fail In those moments everything feels so vulnerable The darkness seems so deep That I can barely keep Myself on my feet Life … Read more

A New Dawn

Image source: My private collection. Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. As I’m sitting here And the sun is about to rise I’m looking back at The fires that were lit somewhere Down the line There a churning in my stomach A fire is burning An energy rising I feel a certain lightness taking over my body … Read more

The Thinnest of Lies

Image source: My private collection. Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. As much as I secretly try I cannot ever Ever Escape from life The thinnest of lies Is telling myself that I Can finally find A teaching, a practice That can say goodbye To myself In the silences of the mind The quiet meetings Will always … Read more

Truthfully

Image source: http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/meh.ro10617_1.jpg The art of listening Truly listening to someone with Your whole entire depth Takes time and requires practice If I’m truly in it with my presence The experience can be meaningful for everybody involved Including me Imagine taking somebody with Your gaze Taking them fully in They know You are there for … Read more

A Simple Conversation

Image source: http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.net/background-nature-conversation-112674.html It’s warmer together The heart beats a deeper rhythm It’s closer together Bodies locked in knowing Knowing that this will end So they move slowly Gratefully as one Hearts opening in silence Just a look can say all that’s needed Deeply, sweetly, discreetly A simple conversation That takes a lifetime Ian Altosaar

In Death

Image source: http://www.zastavki.com/eng/Nature/Mountains/wallpaper-43616-0.htm Death has a strange way of giving life to new perspectives They always go hand in hand If You taste one, You have one foot in the other That’s the nature and cycle of life It’s a terribly soothing concept Death In all it’s glory and power So powerful, yet so fragile … Read more

Being Humbled

Image source: http://www.wallpaperup.com/560643/Seasons_Winter_Mountains_Snow_Trees_Rays_of_light_Sun_Natur_rustic_farm_house_barn.html There’s something truly magical About a man being humbled By his own bullshit, wounding His shortcomings as a man That man slows down He moves with grace He listens with care He loves with an open heart He becomes a vessel for God to shine through The pain has made him soft … Read more

Ask and You Shall Receive

Image source: http://www.paperhi.com Ain’t it funny? That we can feel so depleted and weak And so full of strength at the same time So eager to meet each other and yet disconnected from ourselves? This world is filled up with paradox The juice of the mind It’s squeezed out of everything and into The minds … Read more

A Mighty Grip

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. Have You ever known pain? Pain the size of a hurricane? It grips You into it’s mighty grasp The only thing that will carry You through this Is the knowing This too shall pass The feeling lost years ago Memories of it still last I want to hold on … Read more