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You are the silk, I the dreamweaver,
Spinning, turning, rolling
On my head's wheels-
You became the intricate design,
Strangled and entangled me.

The required pattern orders me
To shear your conception.
But I can't and I won't
For my wheels
Will get frozen
For the one whose name means "Serica"
Don't speak of rainbows now,
Because if rain falls at night
No rainbow ever comes.

The band of seven colors,
Rainbow is a promise
That ends disbanded.
Dissipated in your
Empty words,
You half-blind prophet.

Rain clouds in your galaxies
You thought
You hid them for safety.
You did not.
I found them.
I knew, I watched
Your galaxies through the years.

The wisest seer I am
I chased away those clouds away
By my resounding light.
Believing you'll send the rays back.

But failing to read my own fate,
I am here on this brimming ocean,
Forsaken by you and your story of rainbows.
Like stars abandoning their place
On dimmed bereaved heavens
Everyone looked up to,
Hoped for each night.

This is the season of rain,
And when it rains it pours.
You left me here
When everything is cascading, falling apart
While you found your own harbor.

So don't speak of rainbows now
Because if rain falls at night
No rainbow ever comes.
Light must precede it
And only I can find it
Inside me.
But rain must fall still,
This season of rain.
Written July 28, 2004
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.


They say it’s spring,

But winter just started with me.

March is when the trees

Shed their leaves for me.

Have they heard my heart

And wept their foliage back to earth, our sacred one?



People stain their foreheads with mark made of dirt.



I knew their muted presence,

Saw the last grip we shared.

Their unseen eyes have read,

The silent goodbyes in our final stare.

Too bad you can never hold nor kiss

What has fallen to the ground.


            *Dusk to dusk, autumn to winter.




Recall this month.

Remember the date.

When I abhor what used to be adored.

A cursed time that brings life

To the one who brought my death.

I could still trace the nights of mourning

For unwanted love sent to grave calling from under.


Birth brings death as death brings life.


Today I can hear father screaming,

A dismal prelude to his coming departure.

Feeling the torture from our ****** blood.

Mother could only weep as I,

Weariness marked our faces

As we speak of impending end.


The earth will take you back.


Should we set the premise

For the soil that claims him?

But father wished to be burnt

And let us keep his ashen form.

It hurts to speak of it as early as now.

He has to suffer still like trees of March.


What has come up must go down.



Has the leaves breathed in

My grieving whispers?

I wish you’re here holding me

As I cry like the trees

And father fades like the leaves.

For winter comes in March.


            *Everything that has fallen shall rise again.
Written Match 16, 2006
Between the fading child and the surfacing man is the pulse of hope.*


Hear the oath of the waning child

And the vow of a struggling man,

They were fastened on this shell

For two decades and a year.

They shared the same eyes of loneliness

Behind the smirk against all pain.

They felt the earth’s diverse beats

With the same feet.



They mourned the history

Of  a clan driven away, divided for years.

And carried the crown

Of both curse and blessing.

Sins of the past,

The hunters they run from.

The punishment of today,

Their gift of endless battles.

And they reach out to the fleeing tomorrow

As atonement for the olds and the littles.



They weave at night from the strings of tears,

They spin at day from the  orbs of bubbles.

They long for their knees to fall in concession

But it all ends in a prayer

As the distant faces of kin

Supplicate on them through their smiles.



Inner voice,

Higher voice,

Swirling on them.

They speak of never faltering.

For us the other dilutes

And the other projects

They will mold in to one.



Soon they will find

Their union

on me.
Written June 2, 2005 ; the year I turned 21.
Scribe’s written prelude to what is to come...*


Soon today shall be marked yesterday,


But our locked hands have known forever


In the mortality of this moment.




This is the past to come we shall hide,


But I will have impressed within me


The grains of your hair,


The light darkness of your eyes,


The story of your face


And the firmness of your hands to mine.




Called for is the spell of forgetting


But more enchanting


Are the whispers of remembering.


So I ask you to keep in your heart,


The safest place to hide them,


All that has to end tonight.


The feelings only us know of,


I will to materialize in words


To be the secret lines


Of our heartbeats


Attuned to this time frame


Soon to fade.




After this,


The present shall be sealed


For I shall only want to live by this memory.


To be awake with a part of me still asleep


In my last sweet evening with you.




And therefore the future remains unknown,


For it is married to the past to come.


We vision another one,


A beautiful one for us,


But we know it does not breathe here.


It will come


In the last breath we draw someday.




Hidden past.


Sealed present.


Unknown future.


Are other peoples’ guess.


No one, nothing


Can open them.


Like the sadness I will keep


Behind my eyes to smile.


Though this verse reflects that pain,


It is only half of what is inside.


Only your hands can unlock them all


Together with happiness I have known.
Written June 30, 2005 for J
Premonition comes
Like speedy lights
In the monitor of half-closed sphere.
Clear image of you registered
Out of nowhere,
Must be a dream, an omen.

I sat for a time to dinner with the PC
Hours to buzz the alien tongue on the floor
Where each post harbors the dagger of its original
form
Praise heavens the Pacific’s enormity half shielded
us.

A thought of you is a welcomed thought to begin
Before the phoned guests blurt their rants.
A moment to play the music of the keyboard,
A minute to cast the secret codes again,
Another chance to bask in the monitor lights.

But why did the PC did not wink back to flash?
And the why the codes only I know denied?
The monitor only gave a sleepy stare
Peered and scowled to the codes,
Nullified the words two of us known.

I had to call help, the Westerners needed to come
Dialed the numerals for assistance
Then there came you are.
Clear as the apparition was.
Bless the divine,

The vision turned to be a wish
They gave flesh for me.

I offered you my throne as you tapped the keyboard
To serenade the computer who has forgotten me.
Marvelous hands are they,
The moody PC widely opened its eyes to flash its
lights
Onto you and onto me.
Now recognizing me as before and the words we
shared for months.
I thank you.

I tell you again you’re marvelous,
For knowing as well the codes
That my own lock on the chest unbolts.
But why then open it up
If in the days that came
You closed up your own eyes from me.

Mr. IT
I have to lock myself again
Thanks for reminding me.
Written January 19, 2006 for N.A. one of the most good looking IT guy we had.
I hear the girl again,

Strumming the air.

She knew the waters so well,

Of those bitter and of those sweet.

Intoxicated with them,

She strums the air

Night and day.



She retells my story,

But I never confessed to her.

She just knew.

She breathes on it

Of chosen words,

Of finest melody.



I don’t hate her,

I found on her an ally,

The girl who moves the stars.



Has she seen the rains?

Has she read my soul?

If you hear her voice,

She speaks of me,

Strumming the air again,

The girl who moves the stars.
***For the best composer and friend Gladys V. (written 9/01/2004)
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