Along with the Ebbing Tide

You came so fast and went away
just as swiftly as the waves head off after kissing the shore
I cried and hoped that when the light dies out
I will find someone to guide me along the way.
My plight brought me to the point of nothingness
And after losing you I don’t seem to know now
how to grab the things that matter most
and to let go those that are not meant to last.
I wanted to know you are not going through without difficulty
That at least you’ll realize how hard life can be without me too
But you seem happy now and it hurts how easily you have set aside
Our time, our love, our promises and all that we have.
Those beautiful memories I have had with you
Are the only ones now I kept holding on to
Believing that in all of the dreams I make every night
I will have you briefly pleading me to stop weeping and go on with life.
I wanted time to travel slow but it flutters so fast
And as always, I am left downhearted with my broken aspiration
That at least for once I will see you missing some parts of me
So that along with the ebbing tide, I can now let you go freely.

Loving the Pain (Sequel to The Pain of Loving) 9:02 PM of September 28, 2010

By the time you read these lines
I swear I have learned to forget death and pain
And along with this new life
Comes the promise of falling in love again.

I thank God life is fair for both of us
Because when w e ended up, we equally lost each other
I did not just lose you
But you too lost me.

Now I learned that while the winds of pain truly blew me hard
It brought back my life to me
Yes the life I have lost because when I found you
I have left aside what was truly mine.

Yet still I have no regrets that we once became one
Because i know deep in my heart that i have taught you
To feel how it is when someone gives his all for love
Even to the point of losing what truly belongs to him.

Now as I start the first steps of finding love again
I pray that life gives you what you longed to have
So that in the end life would still be fair for both of us
You finding yours and me finding mine.

And Life Smiled At Me

When everyone seems to leave
and nothing is left of you ...
Breathe high and extol the heavens
For you still have your life with you

When people close to your heart
start to distance and forget you
whimper not for life will find someone
more precious and worth keeping for you

When after falling for someone
that someone suddenly dies out
wallop not your heart in dismay
one day you’ll know why he has to go

When after so many tries ,still,
you can’t get a grab of that slippery dream
doubt not your will to achieve
dreams are made to come and go

When you feel you can’t love anymore
and fate leaves you in a bitter end
forgive your heart and your spirit
and love will find you unexpectedly

In everything that comes your way
whine not but raise your spirit in praise
Someone up there is grinning at you
when you smile at life, life smiles at you too!

Where Are You

I remember how you cried along when life seemed hostile back then
You cuddled me as the first few drops of tears followed the stream of a flowing grief
And with those hefty mood we trusted life will recompense our heavy spirits
while yearning that one day our fancy dreams will bring us to the longings of our hearts

My time did come for a life heaped with the good things we wanted
But your time to see and share them with me suddenly took that startling turn
Awed with such a page in life I have never expected, I grieved for you
Leaving me reaped the fruits of our dreams and hopes in solitude and in tears.

I went out and looked for my missing piece, yes I still do till now
Believing that one day, with a sugary smile, I will get home humming our song
To find you eagerly waiting on that old chair we used to cuddle and tickle
Happy enough to claim we have beaten life’s mystifying battle of agony and misery

My words may not find you so soon my good old friend
But in time when my mind reaches that final bend
And when my spirit grapples the last strand of my breath
I will see you and hug you and we will be happy even beyond our graves.

The Pain of Loving

In the beginning there is attraction.
And you start to live life beautifully.
Then he says he loves you and life starts to shower drops of rainbow bits.
And then you will think you’ve kept enough of them
and start to believe you will never get hurt anytime soon.

And life continues to be beautiful.
You laugh, laugh and laugh even louder this time.
Then the wind of change starts to blow.
And you are blown out of proportion.
Or so you think.
But you will remember the rainbow bits you have kept.
And those will tell you to hold on stronger-
To walk against the blowing of the wind.
And the wind gives up.

Life is beautiful again
because you think you have won a battle between life and love.
But then the wind comes back.
This time mightier than you can ever think.
And the chills start to get worst.
And you start to shatter.

And break into pieces.

And then you simply want to die…

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To Suffer Rightly with Our Right to Suffrage

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Our right to suffrage should supposedly deliver us from the wayward politicians who have done less (if there was any) to pull us out of the economic mayhem we have learned to live by. But that is no longer what is happening now. The value of our voting power is no longer governed by what our conscience dictate. The worth of our freedom to choose our government is now dependent on the market value offered by every candidate. To date, I have yet to see a strong-willed Filipino who- amidst the tinkle of money (for the masses); the enticement of a promised position (for those rich ones close to the candidate); and the lure of regulation laxity (for the business tycoons) each politician offers- refuses to conform to the evil of vote buying.

Selling our votes means giving up our right to demand for the promises these politicians make. That goes to say that the Php1,000 (lower or higher) we get today out of our voting power inhibits us from whatever right for any objection we intend to raise tomorrow. With the small amount comes a long term silence- a silence that will give us the loudest uproar of deprivation; a silence that gives authority for those in our government to do whatever anomaly they intend to do; a silence that will keep our eyes open yet deaf-mute for all the irregularities in our country simply because we have sold our rights to rightfully question the culprits.

In analysis, there are no buyers if there are no sellers. The so called masses should realize how the money they receive so momentarily satiate some of their needs. That in the long run, they not only gamble their lives but also those who have chosen to exercise their right of suffrage conscientiously. If the masses who constitute the majority votes in this country (and who are the easy prey of those vote buyers) would only try to be selfless for once, we can rightfully and collectively condemn those who have not been faithful to their advocacies.

In a deeper analysis, there are no sellers if there are no buyers also. I wouldn’t blame the poor for taking what is being offered. I will blame the buyers for taking advantage of the frailty of those whose plights in life prompted them to contentedly pocket the small amount that would temporarily feed them and yet bit by bit would drown them into nothingness. Shame on the politicians who buy votes! -Shame on their selfish motives, shame on their hunger for power and shame on them for corrupting the minds of the poor.

Our uncertainties will continue to thrive. Our questions of deliverance will persist unless we start to take that one step of giving dignity to our voting power. Our current destitution is a result of irresponsible actions from both the voting public and the elected officials. The worthless blaming will continue unless we start to pin our hopes to not only the candidates but to ourselves as well. Let us respect our right to suffrage.