What Would Be My Life?
Written/Narrated By Southern California Poet Dean Okamura
What if… my grandparents stayed in Japan.
Never traveled to America.
Had I been born here.
What would be my life?
Different no doubt.
Yet, looking out the window, I felt my different lives would intersect.
That I would sit in this same Starbucks, Hakata Station, Fukuoka, Japan.
At the same phase of my life.
Looking behind me to read the signage:
— The tireless pursuit of all things coffee
— Pour your heart into it
Yes. Life has its pursuits; its time to pour out one’s heart.
But now… nice to feel content.
Watch the world walk by.
Take a break.
Enjoy the moment.
(Starbucks, Hakata Station, Fukuoka, Japan (2017))