Sunday, June 15, 2008

30 years. 30 days.

The tide turns. Waves race toward your toes. Tonight, you wonder if somebody at the edge of this sea, on a similar breakwater or probably on a parallel universe, sits and skips stones just like you do. But you can only make out a blink arranged neatly in the island before you.

It’s been 30 days and 30 years. And you want to find yourself elsewhere. Some place better than this. Perhaps on a cliff. No. A bamboo platform on a cliff. A room with doors that open to the sea. The gauze curtains gathered to one side. With the surf, hazy white lines that falls and rises. Falls. Rises.





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10 comments:

  1. pai paiJune 21, 2008 at 4:49 AM

    ei sir, is it the weather? jejeje.

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  2. Al GabrielJuly 5, 2008 at 1:58 AM

    too early for 'mid life crisis,' buddy!

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  3. kristine tanJuly 5, 2008 at 2:06 AM

    fall seven times, rise eight. :)

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  4. Bugoy Traveler PHJuly 5, 2008 at 2:08 AM

    the storm now gone. long gone :D

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  5. Bugoy Traveler PHJuly 5, 2008 at 2:12 AM

    by golly, this entry sounds, yes, something like that already. need to shift gears. pronto.

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  6. Bugoy Traveler PHJuly 5, 2008 at 2:15 AM

    this is just one of those rare moments. you know, alone. the sea in front. darkness all around.

    at any rate, i'd like to self-assess this one as nothing short of a reflection. the term "midlife crises," the way it is defined in psychology, makes me uncomfortable.

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  7. kristine tanJuly 5, 2008 at 2:26 AM

    hmmn, it's good to slow down once in a while in this fast-paced world of ours. it helps with catching up on our souls. *and* with our stomachs catching up with us. ;p

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  8. Danny .July 5, 2008 at 5:39 AM

    Spurs. Of breath. Of thoughts. That make the days. That form out. Sentences. Into years.

    (hehe sampol lang.. suway suway ba...)

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  9. Bugoy Traveler PHJuly 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM

    e.e. cummings, esdatchu? :)

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  10. catie dumancasJuly 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM

    soo nice. hands down!

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