Todays my last day
In bama town
And I'm sad and glad about it.

I watched my father bat
My eyeballs like never ending camera lenses
He's the most successful
And possibly fulfilled
He's ever been.

I asked him on the way home
In his perfect bat mobile convertible
"Do you ever look back and remember when you first started out and how hard that was?"
And he told me a tale of how it was.
And advised me on it again later
As I read, wrote notes, and taught my little brothers dog
How to jump and swim in the pool


Without fear.

071216 #6:53AM

Before you,
My life was just the way it was,
Everything was in its motion
And I do know,
Love isn't void.

Then, you became that revolving planet,
Away from your own axis.
My heart was in collision
For I thought you're just in time --
Just in time to carry my loads,
To breakfree me with a non-universal smile.

But after love has conquered its fear to love again,
I was stomped and that love,
You tore it to be invisible.
In you, it became impossible.

The moment I did stop for awhile,
Was also tht moment I thought I lost the fight.
And the way I've known love
Was intended to forgiveness,
To cuddle myself freed.

I have loved you
And I held you for too long.
Yet, just in time, I have to let you go --
Just in time,
Real love will be bound by its own.

My world is not of the written word
It cannot be numbered
held captive on a so called page

My world is liquid
as sea , rain , snow or ice
It can be hot , cold , or entice

My world is cloudy
It thunders after it flashes light
My world is wrong , my world is right

There are no words that bind my life
I won't be delegated
to exist in the black on white

I will not be staved
by the limited sways
of the written words upon the page

She sits from where
the rainbow arches into the river.

As I eye her fishing net
she reads the question in my mind.

I'm waiting for three thirty
when tides begin to fall
but the shrimps can't go back.

When the bank begins to bare
she glides into the waves
till the water cools her *******.

I walk away knowing
she would bob up to the hour
the moon is upon her face
and she has made another morrow
from the river.

I'm standing here on the side of the road, rain falling on my shoes
Sorrow clouds my view
Lord knows I've paid my dues

Standing here in my misery knowing I'll never see the sunlight
Seeing my life as just a blight
Lord knows I'll never get it right

I'm standing here on the side of the road, rain falling on my shoes
I can't help but sing the blues
Lord knows I am confused

Standing here while demons play with my memories
Lying "it truly had to be"
Lord knows my life's in jeopardy

I'm standing here on the side of the road, rain falling on my shoes
This agony remains in my soul infused
I know the Lord's amused

Dear Lyft driver,

I don't wanna talk today
About what I do
Who I am
This morning. At 6am
Let me listen to my music
The headphones in my ears
Answering questions
With feeling
And let me just be
Incognito
Thank you for the interest white man
But let me be.

Washed my ink
Dotted my i's my t's
Gave lots of love before leaving
Life is too fickle, too short
Not to give it all away
Delta delta let's fly away.

A sense of newfound answers
Contentment
The past at last
Reared one final breath
And now with peace
I can curtesy and keep on.

We arrive
Checked in
Time to go little one
Who is beautiful
So beautiful
With no make up on.

the seas endless crescendo,
summer roses,
shadowy inks of the stars.

070616 #12:27PM #ElNido

MAKATA ang lenggwahe ng pusong umiibig,
MAKATA ang katauhang ikinubli ang malasakit,
MAKATA ang kasarinlang may dalisay na panalangin.

Patungo sa may lalang na may misteryong grasya,
Kanyang isasakatuparan ang mistulang imposibleng eskima --
MAKA-DIYOS ang MAKATA.

Para sa pahalang na pakikitungo
Sa madlang baluti'y maskarang may bahid na kayumanggi --
MAKATAO, siyang daing ng MAKATA.

Sa Perlas ng Silanganang winawagayway ang bandila,
At sa udyok ng romantikong lupaing sinilangan --
MAKABAYAN ang pagpili ng MAKATA.

Heto ako't kumakatok sayong pintuang walang susi,
Pagkat kandado mo'y makasarili sa'king galak na pagbati.
Ikaw ang simbolo ng kabuuan ng pag-ibig na hinaharana,
Habang ako ang pariwarang napuno ng "baka sakali," o Sinta --
MAKA-TAYO ang MAKATAng may puso.

070716 #SirFrancisHouse #ElNido

Mapalad ang nauuhaw,
Mapalad ang nagugutom,
Ngunit iba ang guhit sa'king palad.

Inalok Mo sa'kin ang luha't delubyo
Hindi Ka humihinto sa pagtapon ng dalamhati.
Mistulang kupas ang kaibigang Bahaghari
Pati sa pag-asa ba'y kami ri'y may kahati?

Sumisipol ang Hangin, umiindayog
Kaya't nagtatagisan ang mga Puno't Halaman.
Matira matibay sa ganitong labanan,
May ibang yayakap sa angkan,
Ang iba'y nagsisimatay na lamang.

Gaya ng pangarap, gumuguho ang akalang matitikas.
Pag binagyo Mo'y magdudumi sa kalye't
Tangay ang tubig na tsokolate.
Walang nauuhaw kaya't walang nagwawalis,
Tila ang lahat, sumusuklob sa yerong palamuti.

Alam kong iba Ka sa kanila,
Kaya't hindi Mo na kailangang patunayan pa.
Kung ganyan Ka lumaban, buhay ng iila'y may pangwakas na.
Sapat nang nandyan Ka, kaya't lumisan Ka na.