Day604【Control】

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

Day604【Control】

DEAR naozo,

What

Can you control

That is what

I would ask

People

Bend steel

Cross the sea

And build

Enormous skeletons

In the dark

They measure

Construct

And give form

To their will

They call it

Power

Yet

Sometimes

I wonder

Not even

A single ray of moonlight

Can be commanded

To fall

Upon the earth

Other hearts

Chance

Time

Events yet unseen

There are things

In this world

That will not bow

To your will

However tightly

You grasp them

Some things

Slip through

Your hands

And so

I believe

Control

Is not

Making the world

Submit

It is standing

Before a world

That will not yield

And refusing

To let your own will

Kneel

The moon

Does not know you

It knows neither

Your wishes

Nor your despair

Still

It passes

So quietly

Through the night

You need no permission

From the world

Do not lose yourself

Trying to change

What cannot be changed

Rule only

The will

You chose

For yourself

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.