2022 ii

Whatever, Dad

Warsh

Runner

God Save The Animals

After All

Mission

S.D.O.S

No Bitterness

The lights of the shopping mall
sparkled like colors painted in the air.

Voices, music, the smell of fresh bread—
everywhere I looked was a brand-new world,
and I couldn’t hold back my joy.

“Wow! Look, that one…
Oh, that too! I saw it on TV!”

Each time I pointed from my wheelchair,
he smiled and nodded, “Yes, yes.”
And every smile warmed my chest,
until tears almost overflowed.

---

So happy, yet tears came.
“Because… I never knew this before.”

Living means this—
to see and choose something together with someone.
At last, I understood.

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In the little shop,
surrounded by teddy bears, notebooks, and mugs,
I heard myself saying, “Which one should I choose?”
It felt like a dream.

“This one is cute, but that one too…
I can’t decide!”

Maybe my voice was too loud,
but for the first time,
I was inside the freedom of choice.

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Then suddenly, I saw it—
a small fountain pen.
Dark navy, slender shape.
I knew at once it would fit his hand,
as if it belonged to him.

“…This one.”

The first thing I chose
was not for me.
It was a gift for him.

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While the clerk wrapped it carefully,
I kept watching.
What I had chosen
would become part of his everyday life.
How amazing that was.

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“Wait… it’s not for yourself?”
he asked, surprised.

“No. Because you always think of me,
I wanted, just once,
to give you something born from my thought of you.”

---

I laughed through tears.
Happy, proud, alive—
because I had become someone
who could truly give.

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“For the first time,
I felt deep inside my heart
that living is wonderful—
not when I chose for myself,
but when I chose a gift for you.

The wish to make you smile
renewed my life.”

---

In that moment,
she was no longer “the girl in the hospital room.”
She was a being who could give,
a truly free soul.

Living means this—
to see the same view,
to hear the same sound,
to choose something together.
And at last,
I could believe it with all my heart.


🎄No.19 The lights of the shopping mall

Verse 1:
Neon rain on borrowed time,
城市慢慢醒来,
I thought your heart was part of mine—
But you lied.

Verse 2:
We laughed while the world collapsed,
你说没关系,
I believed it wouldn’t last—
But we did.

Chorus:
We stayed until it hurt,
在爱里迷失.
Every truth we never learned—
Still exists.

Verse 3:
Your silence speaks too loud,
你的影子还在,
I’m lost in every crowd—
Since goodbye.

Bridge:
如果时间倒退,
I’d still stay with you.
Even knowing what it does—
I’d still choose.


We Stayed Until It Hurt

After All

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