Today I Am Completely Different

Written By Chloë Rain
I am completely different a Poem

I Am Completely Different

I am completely different.
Though I am wearing the same tie as yesterday,
am as poor as yesterday,
as good for nothing as yesterday,
today
I am completely different.
Though I am wearing the same clothes,
am as drunk as yesterday,
living as clumsily as yesterday, nevertheless
today
I am completely different.

Ah—
I patiently close my eyes
on all the grins and smirks
on all the twisted smiles and horse laughs—
and glimpse then, inside me
one beautiful white butterfly
fluttering towards tomorrow.

— Kuroda Saburo

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Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is a Spiritual Guide whose work is deeply rooted in the initiatory cycles of nature. She has more than fifteen years of ceremonial practice within two traditional medicine lineages, as well as having completed graduate research while living above the Arctic Circle exploring the sacred landscape of Sápmi through a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies.

Through her writing and body of work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds them, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, culture, and religion.

She offers one-to-one spiritual direction for those navigating life transitions and deep personal spiritual inquiry.


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