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Master of all lies. A man who cannot walk his talk is a fool. Sweetheart, you wear deception like a crown, but it is cracked, tarnished, and heavy upon your head.

You preach that gossip brings no wealth, yet you lap at every whisper, every rumor, every shadowy tale, as if it were gold dust falling into your palms. And yet, what have you earned? Not riches, not glory. Just enemies. Just the bitter taste of contempt.

Ah, I suppose I must be important then. After all, you spend your days, your hours, your every waking second, collecting fabricated stories as if they were treasures. Stories with no proof, no merit, no weight—yet you hoard them like a miser clings to coins.

Meanwhile, I hold a reverse uno card. I play when the time is right. I collect receipts, evidence, proof—a ledger of truth that outlasts your smoke and mirrors. I sip my piña colada in the sun, watching as the foolishness of your efforts collapses into absurdity.

You speak of honor, yet your tongue drips poison. You say discretion is valuable, yet you scatter secrets as if sowing weeds. How quaint, that you believe your duplicity is cleverness. It is folly, pure and unadulterated.

Every lie you tell is a stitch in the shroud you will one day wear. Every whispered rumor is a brick in the coffin of your credibility. You may not see it now, lost in your small victories, but it waits, patient and inevitable.

You paid attention to me, and in that attention, you thought to craft control. You spread my story as if bending it could bend reality itself. But reality, darling, is not yours to shape. It bends only to truth—and you are far from it.

You call yourself shrewd, a master of strategy, yet you cannot see that your currency is contempt. Haters, enemies, the shadows of those you slandered—they are your true legacy. Not millions, but resentment. Not respect, but whispers behind your back.

Be wise in investing your time. Time is the only coin that cannot be reclaimed. And yet, you spend it lavishly, casting venom where it serves nothing but your ego. Sweetheart, did you ever consider that silence and dignity could yield more than gossip ever could?

Some people pay back respect and silence. Quiet, unassuming, steadfast. They move through life with integrity, and their restraint becomes their armor. And others? Others pay back karma. Slowly. Deliberately. Remorselessly.

Do you feel clever now, as your words coil through circles, twisting perceptions, stitching shadows into my name? Do you not feel the weight of the eyes you cannot see, the judgment you cannot escape?

Your lies are like smoke. They drift, they burn, they suffocate. And yet, when the wind shifts, when the truth rises, you are left coughing, choking, grasping for a foothold that does not exist.

You cannot walk your talk. You cannot own your words. You cannot contain the chaos you so freely unleash. A man who spreads venom while preaching virtue is no master—he is a jester, dancing on the graves of his own dignity.

Haters do not build empires. Shadows do not create legacies. Gossip does not enrich the soul, nor the mind, nor the life. You trade ephemeral attention for permanent disgrace, and call it cleverness.

Do you hear it? The whisper of karma, patient, deliberate, circling closer with every lie, every manipulation, every act of malice. You cannot flee it. You cannot bribe it. You cannot charm it. It waits.

Time invested in venom is time wasted. Energy spent on deception is energy stolen from creation, from love, from truth. And you, master of all lies, squander both recklessly. Meanwhile, I sip my piña colada, receipts in hand, reverse uno card ready, knowing exactly when to play.

Some will remember your cruelty in silence. Some will repay it without words, letting the weight of justice fall unnoticed until it is too late. Some will let the universe itself deliver its verdict, patiently, with precision.

Sweetheart, you gained haters, not millions. You gathered contempt, not respect. And one day, perhaps, you will realize the truth too late: gossip is a currency the soul cannot spend, a poison the heart cannot digest.

Be wise in investing your time. Some people pay back respect and silence; others pay back karma. You will find which is yours, eventually. And when that day comes, the mask you wear will crack, the shadow you cast will falter, and your lies will finally meet their reckoning.

Master of all lies. A man who cannot walk his talk is a fool. And fools, darling, always pay their debts. Meanwhile, I drink my piña colada, collect my proof, and laugh quietly—because time and truth are mine, and yours are already running out.
012025

Paanong ang mga bulalakaw
Ay kusang nagpapaubaya?
Mahuhulog sa lalim ng gabi
Dawit ang liwanag nitong taglay.

Sumapit ang ika-dalawampu ng unang buwan
At pumipisan pa rin ang mga mata
Sa lilim ng Kanyang kagandahan.
Ang yaman ng pag-ibig ay bukas sa lahat,
Sa palad Niya’y kakapit pa rin
Maging ang may tangan ng mga sandata.

Sa wakas at hindi na muling mauubusan pa
Ng hininga ang gabing walang himpil sa paghikbi.
Hindi na muling pipikit at hahawi sa dilim
Na nagbabakasakaling masaklawan nito
Ang Ilaw na papawi sa kanyang pagkabulag.

Ilalantad na ang sarili
Na para bang ito na ang huling paghinga.
Hindi na iaantala ang panahon,
Ngayo’y oras ay hindi na kalaban pa —
Ngayon ang tugon nya‘y “oo”
Pagkat ang bukas ay wala nang pahina.
 Dec 2024
Nemusa
We the nobodies, shadows cut from the cloth of smoke and scars,
a fever of sweat and darkness pooling, tears of sorrow swallowing tomorrow.
They locked us in silence, mad minds forging new words, wild and sharp,
each syllable slipping from sanity’s grip, each sound a breath clawing free.

Everything slides in time, the tick-tock mocking us, echoes like footsteps
down the hallway of closed doors, promises that never open.
See you on the other side, they said, where death waits like a lover,
the kiss of a fist, sweet baby girl, sleep—don’t listen,
we’ll wait before sharing the truth, its teeth bare and grinning.

The mania whispers in dark corners, shakes the bones from rest,
and a thousand thoughts slice through, a razor storm beneath quiet skin.
Blood seeping down thick thighs, warmth trickling like proof—
still alive, still fertile with fear, birthing only dread.

He could never hear her, she screamed into an endless void,
her voice a smear, red stains across cold walls.
And no peace wrapped her, no quiet settled in,
only the whisper of madness, and the promise—
of a darker dawn to come.
 Dec 2024
David
Tiny gods mumur profanities
Docile hands, obtuse in their promise
Feed warm solace to pigeons in the park
I need heaven to smile
The sky needs to open its mouth wide
So stars come alive
I need my words to become famous
To cavort thru adolescent eyes
Paper makes a prisoner of trees
Standing alone silent in the breeze
 Dec 2024
Peter Gerstenmaier
Not entirely sure
What's more toxic
You, me or cyanide
I guess I'll have a shot of cyanide, please...
072924

O kayraming pangarap na binuo —
Binuno sa sariling salamangka.
May ibang nagwawaging nakangiti,
Habang ang ila’y nalalagas kamamadali.

Nakamamangha nga sa umpisa
Pagkat ito ang batayan ng karamihan
Sa tinatawag nilang  “makapangyarihan.”

Silakbo ng damdami’y aking pinatatahimik
Bagamat sa mga sandaling iyo’y
Gusto ko na lamang mapaos
Sa mga himig na inaanod patungo sa aking lalamunan.

Patuloy ang pagsuntok ko sa buwan
Hanggang sa maging gula-gulanit maging aking kasuotan.
Ngunit sa patımpalak na ito’y
Wala naman pala akong ibang kalaban
Kundi ang sarılı kong anino,
Ang kumunoy ng aking nakaraan.

Madilim —
Madilim ang paligid saanman ako dumako.
May hiwaga pa nga bang taglay ang Liwanag?
Kung ang sinag Nito’y mas maaga pa sa Pasko.

Mahiwaga —
Ganyan nila ituring ang mga alitaptap
Na para bang may isang diwatang
Umaaliw sa kanila,
Naghahayag ng kung anu-anong mensaheng
Wala naman palang kabuluhan
Kaya’t sabay-sabay silang mauubos
Na parang mga paupos na kandaling
Wala nang balak na sindihan pa.

Sino nga ba?
Sino nga ba ang aking susundan?
Napapatid, napapagod, nanlulumo’t nakikiusap
Na ako’y hatulan na lamang ng kamatayan
Nang mabaon na rin sa limot
Ang mga alaalang dumi sa’king katauhan.

Tinatanong ko ang sarili
Kung bakit nga ba paulit-ulit ang daan?
Wala nga bang magtutuwid sa mga lubak nito?
Ito na nga ba ang dulo ng bahaghari?
At sinu-sino nga lang ba ang makahaharap sa Liwanag?

Ako at ang kadiliman
Ako at ang liwanag.
Sino nga ba ang pamato?
Sino nga ba ang tunay na kalaban?

Subalit kung ako ma’y isang anino na lamang,
Ako’y pipisan pa rin sa mga yakap ng Buwan.
At kahit pa ako’y mahuli sa kanilang takbuha’y
Sigurado pa rin akong
May liwanag pa rin sa aking sinusundan.

Ikaw, Anong tantya mo?
Makararating ka rin ba sa dulo?
Ikaw, anong pasya mo?
Tataya ka ba o mananatiling isang anino?
 Jan 2024
irinia
we are targets for light, for the precision of its
unknown aim, yet we insist in blackening the world
as a self-described pyromaniac, I practice daily rituals with your presence. I tell your name to the wind, to the sheets, to the cup of tea,  to the orchids. then I tell to myself who I am, who you are.
outside the world is drowning in its own guts. your name is incomprehensible, but not to the rituals of the heart, they defy gravity, brevity and bribery. Diffracted on the psychic field your trajectory is eerie, the amplitude of some waves enormous, as I watch them wash the horizon away. dreams are the only shadowless creatures, and still I dream only your shadow. we still don't know why beauty is truth and truth is beauty. oh, happy rituals of the hands: inventing love, writing poetry.
 Apr 2023
irinia
"The mother's heart is the child's playground."

i have one story to tell  to me again and maybe again, i caught myself dreaming the boundary between the energetic darkness and the travelling light. this vital story  when the mornings were pure the nights full of unknown beings, the rib cage the only space i knew rippled by the vital waves, by dread, incomprehensible vibrations, the beat of my heart unprotected, the horizon had not yet been invented, nor the sisterhood and brotherhood.  pain was an incessant falling into the void, the desire infinite, my body shattered into vital fragments, a misattuned orchestra of delight and terror (body-mind-reality continuum forever broken). at the crossroad of deadness and aliveness i was stamped with fire and water, i was an imaginary being without limits. even now i use a strange language and visions of the infinite haunt me, i taste life when i confuse myself with you and her and him and them, so that death is not incomprehensible. i was once a pool of vibrant nothingness, this terrible pain of life crushing itself inside the flesh, of reality and imagination, longing and despair annihilating each other.
my body carries patiently the invisible tattoos of vibrant scars, she waits for me to learn how to love the simplicity and the serene fullness of life. all i need is more words, new vessels for the infinite desire, more "i" in this i from the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.
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