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Jose Remillan Apr 2014
There's just one little
Flaw in your thesis.
None of this is real.

You pull the plug,
I disappear.
And nothing I ever say,

Nothing I ever do,
will ever matter.
Jose Remillan Oct 2013
thesis                                                                      
world history
is a history of
constant conflicts
among classes
                                                         ­                    **antithesis

world history is
shaped by us,
conflicts emanate
from unconscious
                                                     ­                            synthesis
world history?
let's make profit
from Capitalism
then build
                                                        
Communism!
10W Poetry/3 Sets
QC Phil
10.12.13
Jose Remillan Jun 2015
The month of May may not be a part
Of our struggle. It belongs to those
Who have chosen to remember the
Blots of blood showered along the

Mendiola pavement, paving a closely-
Knit kinship of beliefs and bewildered
Minds, of a passing moment, of a
Movement passed on generations.

Struggles don't end, for they never begin.
Gun's barrel is where power grows. Mao
Theorized it, generations lived it. Not until
This generation's search for new reason,

Tilling fields

Are mapped in the hearts of the masses;
Where new weapons are fashioned, new
Passion grows for living the theory, for
Doing philosophy out of soil, out of gears.

Superstructure is rebuilt on chalkboards.
For Dr. Karl Marx, on his birthday
May 5, 2015
Jose Remillan Oct 2013
Kinakanlong mo ang
Hiwaga at kahulugan ng
Isipang sumisipat sa
Walang kapares na
Alindog ng paralumang
Itinatangi ng engkantasyon.

Tumila ka man, tila ang
Unos na tangan mo ay
Bitbiting papasanin ng
Agam-agam at gunita.
Lisanin man ng ulap at
Ikubli ng bahag-hari ang
Nagbabadyang pangamba,
Ang iyong pagdatal ay
Lumbay at ligaya na sa
                  puso'y ikinintal.
Bacoor City, Philippines
August 20, 2013
Jose Remillan Jun 2015
Hanggat maari ayaw ko pa sanang
Iligpit ang mga pinggan at ilang kubyertos
Na ginamit natin, ang damit ****

Nakasampay sa ulunan ng higaan natin,
Ang mga basyo ng lotion, shampoo, at
Pabango na naiwan mo, lahat sila itinabi

Ko, kasama ang damdamin kong binuo
Mo sa maikling panahon na naglagi ka,
Dito kung saan iniwan mo ako.

Dumating na naman ang summer, at
Heto ako, inaalala ang plinano nating
Forever. Ang alon sa dalampisagan,

Ang mga piraso ng batong inipon mo't
Sinilid sa sisidlan ng tarheta, hanggang
Ngayon binibilang-bilang ko pa, tila mga

Patak

Ng luha na hindi na titila. Ang dalawang
Pirasong damit mo, ayun, nakasabit pa,
Sa dingding na naging saksi sa mga

Sandaling hiniram natin sa tag-araw.
Dumating na naman ang summer, at
Heto, ang dalampasigan, pinagmamasdan

Ko, nagsasabing may forever...
Pasacao, Camarines Sur, Philippines
August 28, 2014
Jose Remillan Oct 2013
I sleep on a bed
Of bedlam so I
Can bury the
Past in a pasture

Of dreams—dreaded
Reality of surreal
Reflections, refracted
Into beams and beads

Of droplets, drowning
A memory of innocence.
It remains a turtle-back.
Walking.
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
October 25, 2013
Jose Remillan May 2017

the glare didn't make it to my eyes,
perhaps not anymore till this hour.
darkness has swathed this cold
corpse of throbbing heart's
longed-for forlorn
freedom from
freezing

numbness of the night, of all that is
human left in me, that has left me,
that has forsaken me. that
it could have been fate is
nothing but a question of
faith; now a question of
happiness. passing.
so this day.

so am i.

— The End —