Day601【Weight】

A daily monochrome photo-poetry series by naozo. Since 2025, each work pairs a moment from everyday life with a poem from NZ, the artist's future self. Through glass, light, and silence, the series turns self-doubt into dialogue.

NZPHOTOGRAPH & naozo

Day601【Weight】

DEAR naozo,

What

Are you carrying

That is what

I would ask

People

Seek lightness

They believe

Less responsibility

A forgotten past

And freedom from expectation

Will make them free

Yet

Sometimes

I wonder

Is weight

Only something

That makes us suffer

Responsibility

The past

Promises

Choices

Things no one can see

Accumulate

Above you

At times

They block the sky

Stop your feet

And make you feel

As though you alone

Stand in darkness

But within

That weight

Are things

You protected

Things

You refused to abandon

And things

You chose yourself

I believe

Weight alone

Does not make us unhappy

What we carry

Can reveal

How we choose to live

You need not

Put everything down

Nor is endurance

The only strength

Simply

Look at what rests

Upon your shoulders

If necessary

Put it down

But if it is something

You refuse to abandon

Its weight as well

Do not flee from weight

It may be

The mass

Of what you chose

What do you think

from NZ

This story is a work of fiction. Except for the named individuals, all elements are products of imagination.

The boundary between reality and fiction is intentionally ambiguous, and its interpretation is left to the reader.