Perhaps

Perhaps good exists only to intensify the experience of bad via contrast.

Easier (Neruda)

What is my poetry? I don’t know. It would be easier to ask my poetry who am I.

Pablo Neruda

Lessons

Life is full of lessons
that death renders irrelevant.

Empathy

Empathy is the beginning, not the end.

On fears

The most debilitating fears disguise themselves as practical concerns.

On choice

Choice is a chance.

Sacrifice

A sacrifice is not diminished by the number of other people who also make it.