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With No Lingering Concerns

To live without lingering concerns—how peaceful that sounds.

Yet the longer we live, the more thoughts remain unfinished,

the more ties bind us gently and painfully at once.

This poem does not promise serenity.

Instead, it sits beside uncertainty and asks

whether living fully in the present might be

the closest we ever come to peace.

 

“With No Lingering Concerns”

 

If one could live

with no lingering concerns,

how happy that would be.

 

As life grows longer,

unfinished thoughts

quietly accumulate.

 

If there were no worries left behind,

how calm the heart might be.

 

To live without regret is impossible.

The moment we feel safe,

we find ourselves staring into an abyss.

 

Even to remain free of anxiety

in this present moment is difficult.

There is no certainty

in the life of tomorrow.

 

If one could live

with nothing to worry about,

how unsatisfying life might become.

 

Without concern, it would not be life at all.

The depth of our care for those we are connected to

is what brings suffering.

 

For now,

I wish to rest in ease and gentleness,

even as I imagine

loosening the bonds of this world.

 

Even if I must leave behind regrets,

I wish, at the very least,

to live this moment without hesitation.

 

To leave nothing unfinished—

that is a dream within a dream.

To live with no lingering concerns

is profoundly difficult.

 

Note:

Lingering concerns (koko no urei): worries or anxieties that remain afterward; concerns carried into the future.

 


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