Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

seeing you again
your face caramel brown
laugh lines around smile
parenthesis surrounding the sides of your mouth
you hold your hands out
while I keep mine at my sides

indulging in nostalgia
a nice big dose of pang bahay blues
outside tita..s wooden gated door in Cebu
muttered memories run through her mind
she forgets if she turned off the oven
and then remembers that the ya-ya
may be in there to handle it
for that's what ya-ya's are good for dios mio

warm breeze
followed by that light warm drizzle
humidity coupled with hunkered down rain
we cobble together some old netting
to discourage the mosquitoes from
your damp but warm home
drops fall on ylang ylang petals
growing outside Jun Jun's planter box
he worry warts about bugs & cockroaches
the size of his fists getting into that patched square
its his mini oasis he has created & protects from vermin

tatay always managed to keep track of
his older brother's phone number
several times he went as far as to dial
the first few digits that separated
him from him

when nanay heard the news
she let out a sound
that was like a needle
that pricked us all
her Corazon
dissipating in the air like dew
and then devoured by the night
half miniscule remnants
fitting through
the eye of that needle

Currently listening : CrazySexyCool By TLC Release date: By 15 November, 1994