

sadness to the positive infinity
Life is eternally sad for me. Everyday we are plagued with countless life choices yet we only have infinitesimal time to figure out—what...


LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT
Mi amore, there is ‘love’ in my love-hate and bittersweet relationship with LRT. Nevertheless, ours isn’t a quid pro quo relationship. I...


Shall we change our nights?
That’s the beer for a toast speech to happy memories, There go our palms swaying like a feather, Our laughs wishing this night remains...


Rain, rain, go away
She used to love the lullaby of rain, The drizzles that play on her windowpane, The gentle mist that rests beneath the sky, And the...


ART AND ARTIST
I I thought I forgot how to grip my favorite pen. How to play with words – with my mother telling me, “Dear, your words are your talent.”...


BAKIT PAYONG?
Nanlilimos para makabili ng payong, Sa umaga’y kung hindi man uulan, ‘yung balat ay titipakin ng init ng araw, sa gabi’y madalas pikon...


Blind Vindication
I saw the woes in the rhythm of her feet As she crawled just to peak at the glass that for long splits the angst of perfection and the...


Manuscript of 5/5/18
I am writing this on the 5th day of May 2018 that I may revisit this manuscript on our latter years—where I supposed, we are all ready to...


In dawn, I see you
I was a nocturnal damsel made up of fine glass; fragile at dusk—and, in deepest darkness of nights, I was mostly alone and miserable....


The Pacemaker
In the fogged pavement, I came across a broken heart and shattered glass and spoke with the dust of midnight, who had broken the glass...