Author Archives: Ruben Laukkonen

With this cage of ribs, With this narrow mind, With these churning thoughts, A sharp sword through a gentle stream—  We pretend to cut the ocean.  We pretend to imprison the heart. 

When tomorrow has my heart, today is a sorrow away.

  There is a stillness inside, where an Earthquake could not, shake the edges of your smile.     

  Look back and it’s gone, look forward and you’ve become an actor. Look straight ahead and assume a posture that is serenely available. Truth is total abandon to what must be. It is courage itself, for what is courage but a step forward into a moment without a shape. It is also the onlyContinue reading “shapeless”

    Laying bare on granite, The sound of the waterfall fills the entire universe, Where is there such thing as a problem?    

    It is wise not to love someone too much while they are still alive. Love them instead each time that they die in your arms. Eyes on eyes, hands in hands. Take moments to die together each day. 

    Oh how the stars draw us forward from the mud of our original homes, tasting fine wine and aged cheese, we lock ourselves in time. “She said what!?” We polarise and we jeopardise our innocence for projections of better lives. A greener garden, a deeper love, a bigger bank of plastic paper andContinue reading “an ode to apes in tuxedos”