And Yet… – 5th October 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen 
The body fails us inch by inch, by year,
   and we must hold each other gently.

Every day the news is worse than the last.
   The dog still wants to play at noon.

We arrive alone and depart alone.
   In between, sometimes someone saves us a seat.

The earth is burning, and no one will stop it,
   so I'll teach the trees toward a sky I won't see.

All my best thoughts have already been thought.
   Someone, somewhere, understood me.

Shared with Poets and Storytellers United #247: Reframing Negative Concepts

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Words Can’t Be Unsaid

Better to trip with your feet
Than with your tongue
You can always get up again
But words cannot be undone

18 thoughts on “And Yet… – 5th October 2026”

  1. That’s a very beautiful, as well as down-to-earth, practical series of reframings. Seems to fit with a Stoic philosophy (from what little I know of that): not denying or minimising the bad stuff but finding the equally-true counter-balance.

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