Sunday, June 16, 2013

Broken Whispers

Once a man had died.
He was alive; but dead inside.
His heart was broken like a fragile glass.
By a lovely, but tormenting glass.

And so, he whispered to himself,
“None I shall love, other than myself.”
And thus, his soul was dead.
For his love is gone for the days ahead.

In darkness he lurked, like a nocturnal bat.
The lovers he saw, did he shot.
For the man was mad,
Not to the girl, but to the love he could’ve had.

Until one night, when he walked alone,
In the eerie darkness where the moon never shone,
He met a woman whose beauty’s so rare:
Of velvet lips, rosy cheeks and skin so fair.

 Once again, the man felt amity.
His sorrow is gone; again he is happy.
Gone are the days where he roamed the darkness.
For his soul thrives, in luminous brightness.

Yet, fear still creeps on his spines.
“Will she be mine?”
His thought inquires.
He fears of getting broken; in pain he tires.

And so he asked the young lady:
“Girl, will you be mine?”
He knelt in front of her
Awaiting for an answer.

“Yes I will. A thousand times yes”
At last! Did the girl confess!
She hugged him like he was a plush toy.
And for she thought the man, be her bundle of joy.


 And soon did the man knew.
He was starting love so anew.
He broke his whispers to his redeemed heart.
And he was happy. For its pieces be never apart.


Home Away

June 13, 2013. It was the day I left my hometown. It was the day I parted with my sister whom I grew up with for the past 14 years and my mother, whom always had my back ever since I was in her womb.
            
A gloomy feeling met me as I woke up on our tight soft bed. As I proceeded with my daily routine, that parting feeling that you get when you’re going to leave someone special to you kept me preoccupied throughout the early frosty dawn.
            
As we proceeded on our day, we went to the school where my father has enrolled me. As we asked the school administrators to pull out all of their requirements that I gave and ask them to return the amount we paid, I started feeling that “sense of goodbye”— an emotion in which I cannot explain to myself.
           
As we practiced our patience on the bus stop, a serene kind of sorrow swept upon me. Already, I was having this uncanny “goodbye” king of feeling. I wanted to shed tears for I know I will miss my friends, my sister and most especially, my mother. I know that months, or probably years will stand between us before we meet each other again.
           
As the corpulent pale bus stood in front of us, I knew it was goodbye. I knew it was time to part with everything I grew up with. As I rode the bus, as my mother told the driver where to leave me, I was able to hear her broke off inside. It was like every word she said was a hell block of ice— so heavy and so cold. I wanted to look at my mother’s eyes. I wanted to see what her soul was emotionally concealing. Yet, I was incapable. She wore a pair of sunglasses; and that made me wonder. Did she wear it on purpose so she could keep her pain a mystery? Was it her way of being strong for me? Before the bus took off, I hugged her so tight and bid her my goodbye and told her that I love her. I knew, time will stand between us, until we meet each other again.
           
June 13, 2013. It was the day I left my hometown, my friends, my sister and my mother. It was the day, I was homeaway.