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Apr 30
when the sky turned black and we see red circles blazing from warlike planes,
when rivers streamed deep red and we see no children running,
when the air smelled like gunfires and we see nothing but the wilting of flowers,
when small boys turned daggers into toys and we hear nothing but the shaking of the grounds,

know that my presense is always in the scent of orchids that get lost through your nostrils,
know that we breathe in the same country and i would cross seas even when they became a pool of corpses,
know that i will be the same child who kissed you under the moonbeams
how my great grandfather bid good bye to his wife, my great grandmother
Dave Cortel
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Dave Cortel  26/Non-binary/Philippines
(26/Non-binary/Philippines)   
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