When I See a Dolphin, a Goldfish, and a Crocodile Swim in the Night Sky

how can a dolphin, a goldfish, and a crocodile swim in the night sky?
they all left but the crocodile remained
maybe it cried crocodile tears
tears that are meant for people to go and leave
or at least that's what the ones who left thought -just crocodile tears
the crocodile waited for orion's belt
but it did not come to the place they should have met
after minutes of waiting (clouds aren't meant to stay, at least i am talking on behalf of their shape),
poof! it turned out to a lump of cotton ball as if it had long expected to be one
orion's belt still did not come until i was left looking at the stars as they licked my eyes off to sleep

10/03/15
1:30AM

Silver Storm

My back shivers as if tormented 

by the seat frozen in time

The place i thought will be an asylum betrayed me; caused me to rime

i am a refugee in this place

but so then i thought

lest be trapped 

i threw myself here

and just so i thought

i cringed to the truth being laid

there are still clutters i wish to fade

Jaded

i thought it will save me

Raided

taken aback; left me

crushed my bones 

lifted me to the atmosphere

dumped me to the lowest point there could ever be

now what grace is not:

crushed body dumped on an ice field

expecting a boat man to save me to live

but this is grace:

You are left all alone 

in the middle of the night stuck on an ice floe

floating at the center of whale sharks’ pall

know not when to move, nobody to call

Only way to be saved is upward 

albeit the truth that it’s you who crushed you 

he who sails you upward is able 

able to tame the whale sharks that surround you

willing to restore the silver storm inside you

8/25/15
8:58AM

Talitha Koum

Stands on the edge of a cliff

an exodus behind its massive built

Free falls from the tip of the cliff

to the impregnable wind 

Like it is the first time 

the wind experienced an assault against its vacillant path

nobody looked 

nobody tried

But it’s a lie when a man says he can swim without the ocean

If I rise to the tedious ascension of waves, 

I’ll be lying if I say my eyes didn’t hurt, my body didn’t bruise

I am hurt, I am bruised 

you don’t trust the waves, you don’t trust the current

I am hurt, I am bruised

and I trust the Maker of the waves and the current

7/24/15

6:46PM

Solstice

To the Purchaser of my undeserved breath

From the highest mountain peaks

to the lowness of the seas

How did it reach me?

My whole body radiates

If only I can call it sun’s rays 

but it’s your love gone through me

I tear my flesh off

Wage war against the enemy 

Spurn its deal to heal my foibles

And then it tries to pull me back

I thrust

But my Fortress 

whose Name is not worthy for my lips to utter

He carries me to the nth degree of haven

I trust

I sleep to the comforts of solstice

Because I find peace from solstice? No

I find peace from God who made the universe and earth and the solstice

07/09/15

6:33PM

Sa Pagitan

Makikita ko ba ang hangganan ng langit at lupa
Kung hanggang saan ang kayang abutin ng isang sinag ng araw
Ang minuto o baka segundo bago pumitik ang takipsilim sa gabi

Panandaliang natulog ang araw
Kumumot sa malalapad na ulap
Sumilip ang tila mapupulang sinag mula sa pagkakahimlay

Nabanaag ang pangatlong baitang ng takipsilim
Lininlang ang kalangitan sa inangking ilaw
Humalik ng pagpapaalam sa aking mga mata

3/14/15
5:11 PM

Airglow

Night after night of tears, guilt, regrets
You rescue me
Where will I be if not for you
We've been through a lot
There are moments you hide yourself, silent
There are times I seek you, times I don't
Your love stay still

Of long walks I wonder
You never get tired of my rants, of my petty talks
Only you know

I will be forever grateful
For you not giving up on me

There are things I don't understand
Questions left unanswered
But that doesn't make you less
That won't make me love you less

I know when we meet, then we'll stroll the seas and the galaxies


03/11/15
12:15 AM

Manhole

I know I need to move
It's not that I hadn't moved on
It's a matter of moving after the fall

Accusations can be proven right albeit wrong
Could struck you down even though you stand firm

Humanity besieged
Corrupted
Poisoned

People will lick a honey off the edge of a sword
Just to hurt people.



02/16/15
1:20 PM

Jekyll Hides

I swallowed something I'm not capable to disintegrate. Seems like dinosaurs going to come out of my stomach. Like caged birds with claws want to flee without having my mouth as passage. Cutting my flesh off. Veins exposed. As the turmoil goes up the head, my lungs enclosed.
For once I tried to blink. Believe me, I tried. But I was terrorised in safety.


1/17/15 5:16PM