The night is low
I could have drowned  
In nocturnal sounds
But they seem not enough
My cradle doesn’t send me drifting.
.
It is like a bout of vertigo...
The moment I close my eyes,
My head starts whirling
My thoughts start spinning
Up there in the ceiling,
I see your face, smiling,
Teasing,
Pleasing,
Ripping my heart apart
Leaving me alone in the dark.

Cold hands, cold sweat,
Unfocused mind...restless feet,
How could I have allowed this
To happen to me?

Why did I?
This is insane.

They say there is beauty
In all these senseless folly,
But it is one I am unable to see.
It surely *****, to be in love...so madly.

Sally


Copyright 2013
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan

It is somewhere in your face
You try so hard to hide it,
But it’s there…
In your actions,
It shines brightly
In your words,
I hear it loud and clear.

It has become a shaft of light,
Emitting a kind of brightness
Only I can understand
For time has honed
This perceptive mind……

It would have been better
If I had lost my memory,
I'd be free from anger and hate,
I wish I were wrong
I wish I were without a sight,
For then I won’t be able to see
The guilt that is all over you.


Sally




Copyright 2013
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan

It was many summers back
When he and she made a pact
At the end of each day
They would drive their fears away
Then close their eyes
To wake up to each one’s sweet “Hi!”

Many more summers passed
Days and nights they hoped to last
Then came the day
When there was nothing more to say.

Late hours of every evening
They would appear to be drifting
But they are not at all asleep
Just caught in their thoughts so deep.

They’re just a touch apart
Pain seeping through one’s heart
The coldness is so immense
Amidst a deafening silence.......

Sally


Copyright 2013
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan