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maiam · 2026 · 18

Paper Boats

River of Thyme

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Paper boat coffee talk Authors plotting their mythic worlds Exchanging glances into their universe Inklings writing at the lions Old souls meeting with their writers Poets, authors, world creators We’re all flowing into each other Rishi growing on old chestnuts Portals open with a hand Doors unlock one by one We speak Manifest what we want Into light Have we met? Old souls Prophets Our work Begins In rooms of our past (I was here) Paper boats, paper planes It’s all temporary anyway We built the dreams, We built our frames
 So temporary in the end Contemporary Contemporary Paper boats, paper planes Everything changes shape Fingerprints on every fold Love is what we really hold Paper walls, paper names
 Everything dissolves again
 What we hold and what we make
 Turns to wind somewhere ahead If the game is in the process itself
 If the building is the way
 Do I leave clues for my future self
 For the next life that we play? You can choose an upgrade With each lifetime game
Or Go back to the beginning
 Learn the lesson once again And again and again Love the eternal Live in your soul flame 
 Or keep rising higher With every game Design your body Design your frame
 Design the lesson meant for change
 Build the future Write the book
 Leave it where your soul will look Design the family that you want Choose the road beyond the haunt
 Upgrade now or stay the same
 Reframe the lesson once again It’s all a paper boat A paper plane Two coffees by the River Thames
 Rose petals in the rain Dripping intentions in the water
 Watching them drift away Maybe all we ever needed
 Was to slow down for a day You can choose an upgrade
 With each lifetime game
 Or circle through the revolving doorway
 Till wisdom finds your soul path Love the eternal Live live live unafraid
 Keep becoming brighter
 With every game Paper boats, paper planes Slow down, take a break Paper boats Paper planes Paper names Fingerprints Changing frames When the game resets again I’ll leave clues for the next game Paper boats, paper planes
 It’s all temporary in the end
 We build the dreams
 We built our frames In the end So contemporary anyway (Anyway) In the end It’s all temporary anyway (Anyway, anyway, anyway) So if the game is about the process
 And the building is about our soul flame Does it make sense to leave clues
 For the next game For the next life? Design a magical path Reframed in a way
 Design our lives
 The world
 And what we leave for the next game You can choose an upgrade
 With each lifetime game Or go back to the beginning Learn the lesson
 Again and again And again and again Love the eternal Live in the eternal lesson Or live with continuous upgrades
 With every game Design our body
 Design our frame Design a lesson Design for yourself Take the lessons
 Build an upgraded game Leave a book for yourself Design a family that you want Live the upgrade Or choose a reframe Of the same lesson
 Over and over and over again It’s all a paper boat
 It’s all a paper plane It’s all temporary anyway Still we leave our marks in clay Fingerprints on paper boats Fingerprints on paper planes Fingerprints on books we leave for the next game It’s all a paper boat
 It’s all a paper plane Two coffees by the River Thames Dripping intentions into water
 With rose petals flying away Slow down
Take a break It’s all a paper boat It’s all a paper plane It’s all temporary anyway (Anyway) A contemporary game
Stay in the wave