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Tandang-tanda ko pa

Makakalimutin ako pero tanda ko pa rin ang mga dumaang araw
Mga panahong ang bawat salita mo bumubuo ng akin araw,
Bawat katinig sa aking balat humahaplos,
Bawat patinig sa balahibo ko dumadausdos.

Hinding hindi ko malilimutan, tunog ng boses **** kay lambing
Nang sinabi mo sa’kin na ako’y gusto mo rin.
Makakalimutin ako pero natatandaan ko lahat ng sinabi mo,
Nung panahong ginantihan mo ko ng salitang “ikaw lang rin ang mahal ko"

Hinding hindi ko malilimutan kung papaano tayo magtinginan
Kung paano tayo naghahati sa mga pagkaing nakahain sa ating harapan.
Kung kelan tayo sabay humahalakhak at parang lunod sa kapit ng alak
At kung papaano tayo magtinginan sa tuwing tayo’y magkaharapan.

Hinding hindi ko malilimutan ang mga panahong kamay nati’y naglapat
Nag salit-salit bawat daliri, nagsasabing habang buhay tayong magiging tapat.
Yung higpit ng bawat kapit sa balikat na tila ayaw malayo
At siyempre ang panahon na una tayong nagtagpo.

Hirap talaga akong makaalala ng mga bagay na nangyayari,
Kilala mo naman ako, likas na makakalimutin.
Kaya nga di ko lubos maisip na kahit hirap akong makaalala.
Hinding Hindi ko pa rin malimutan, ang mga luma nating ala-ala.
I hear the wind blow,
As it rustles the tree.
Carrying noises,
And various debris.
I open the shutters,
To embrace the wind,
But my thoughts go dark,
And my intellect thinned.
My ears hear whispers,
Intense and unkind.
All from the wind,
Through my open blind.
 Aug 2017 Blessed Regalia
zebra
i am much younger than i am
my hair is dark and thick
instead of pruned bald
i am lean and meek
feeling hollow
as if weightless

we are at an airport
with no memory of getting there

i had left my hotel room urgently
in a jacket that is not mine

i can't find my Swedish wife
whom i miss like a panicked child
and my Asian wife whom i've never never met before
and know all to well
is angry
and could care less if i got lost forever

i am going home to my parents house
i remember that they are dead
but we had just spoken
there will be soup and Hors d'oeuvre's

they wait for me

on my way
the streets and boulevards are unfamiliar
yet old hat
and no matter how long i walk
i can never find their house
located somewhere in Brooklyn
on Haze street in San Francisco

i have a business
and retain no idea of what i do

i left my cloths somewhere
and i don't know why
in a locality i cant remember
for a reason that doesn't exist

a beautiful woman smiles offers me ***
she is friends with a girlfriend whom i'm committed too
but do not know and never met
i want to cheat with her
but guilty kisses will ruin everything
so i turn away
murdering desire
in an already anchor-less miasma

i remember a past
my life a continuum
of disjointed vagaries
tears well up

i fear myself a figment
a bodiless revenant
stranded in a fog
sparkles and smoke
incandescence and shrouds
a dis-junctured soul
that clutches memories
like braids of dust
living in the eye of nothing
a labyrinth of shades
lighted by the sun of cognizance
a wretched phantom
transparent husk
living a dark fiction
my grave a womb

i am the dead living
Irish Ditty.. One fine day, middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.
no matter how sweet the fruit is
when it was all along
forbidden
ringer sometimes plays long
at the nerve ends
perhaps there are things that will not happen
behind the locked doors
After midnight, after I'm fed up with your lie
I pack up all my stuff and leave you behind
The bound between us that used to be tight
Now has become so heavy
That it sinks to somewhere I cannot find
And you keep on pretending everything is fine
Keep on blowing your pipe

But I am tired of all this disguise
Because Deep down I know
this gap has gone too wide
I have to give up reaching for the other side

Now, after midnight,
You get down on your knees and cry
Begging me not to resign
From being your wife
I say: Sorry, but I gotta fix up my mind.
 Aug 2017 Blessed Regalia
Syd
you came and you went
just like that
you were here
and then you weren't
my calendar reminds me
that we spent 18 days together
but every bone in my body swears
it felt more like 18 hours

i remember seeing your face
across that enormous room
for the first time in months
and everything inside me
set itself on fire
there's really no words to explain
the way that feels
no way that makes sense to someone
who hasn't experienced it themselves

but let me try

it was a little like breathing
for the first time
in a very long time
waking up from a nightmare
and gasping for breath
the comforting realization
that it was only just a dream
it was kind of like that

it was a little like holding your breath
underwater
and finally coming up for fresh air
filling your lungs with sunshine and summer
and being happy
it's simple
it was kind of like that

you think you'll cry but you don't
there is no time for tears
you spent months crying them and
there's simply no place for them any longer
there is only room
for happiness

you'll wake up the next morning
if you ever even fall asleep
and he will startle you
because for months you slept alone
and this body feels unfamiliar and strange
but you love it
and it is home

you will try to find the right words
just as i am now
to tell people about it
how amazing it is
was
and you will fail
you will fail every time
but you try anyway

so yes,
it was a little like that
and a whole lot
like nothing
i have ever experienced
before.
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