The Sweetest of Meetings

Image source: My private collection. Agaete, Gran Canaria. There are different places inside Yourself Different sides to Your Self Finding peace amongst them Can mean being seen as Yourself There is safety there present But before that comes trusting Your being Allowing Your surrender To the kind stranger You might want to see into their … Read more

The Freedom to be Me

Image source: My private collection. Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. I have a yearning that’s burning inside Echoes from within, time and time again The strongest of pulls The greatest of all desires I walk this path I fight for it with all my wrath As much as I can This is all I want in … Read more

Loving

Image source: My private collection. Tallinn, Estonia. It’s hard to love sometimes Knowing that it will end Someday, somewhere When You release Your last breath of air I hope it will all be worth it At the hour You will face The stare Of Your life And the glare Of how You’ve lived Ian Altosaar

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