Shadow World (The Best of Ai)

Thoughts (Po)

I do not know your thoughts

 Those things that drift here and there

Sometimes choosing to linger sleepily

Those things that rush from side to side

Sometimes climbing to great heights

Those things that help define

The unique and priceless aspects

Of heart, mind and spirit

I do not know yours

It doesn’t help at all

That matters of a human heart

The troubles of every soul

Can change the thoughts

At any given time there is

I suppose if they did not ever shift

People would never ever change

Remaining the same, always and forever

Children would stay children

No one would become stronger

Can all of this possibly mean

That you can’t at all grow up

If you do not suffer, do not feel pain?

Does the inevitable hurt make you strong?

Is it some sort of key to maturity?

Or is it perhaps the way

The way you choose to suffer

That makes a person who they are?

Is there even a choice for that?

I suppose sometimes it doesn’t

Even matter how you suffer

You become stronger regardless

If you survive.

I do not know this either though

But I think I will know soon

Or at least, maybe, perhaps someday

My life is just at the beginning

And life seems to be both pain and luxury

Though I wish there was no hurt.

You just have to find

Something worth suffering for

Or something that’s not quite

Worth suffering for in the least bit

And a way to do it, of course

The rewards will quickly follow

Blessed are those who suffer

For the one who did it all for us first

Now back to thoughts

You know some of mine

Yet I am no closer to figuring out

Those thoughts in your mind

Are these yours or mine?

Do you think these thoughts at all?

When you think you’re stuck

Just go the other way

Perhaps you’ll find the answer there.

Remember...I love you.

Truly, I do.

Always.

And forever.

No matter your thoughts.