LUNANGON

LUNANGON

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

one afternoon in the library of Cornell (unedited)

welcoming the breather
as my mind squeeze the
already parched tabula
every drip of a letter seems
like also brushing my blood
dry as it splatter on blank
paper hoping they do
make sense

it is hard when heaven
haven't wept for so long

there must be an end
this dismal routine of working
the conveyor belt of medical
care sounding like a bloated frog
awhile wishing that the old self
of maybe 2 decades ago is still
there, buried but nevertheless
there while I demand for signs

it is hard when heaven
haven't wept for so long ...

Sin-o ako (who am I)?

-- native cook of literary dessert -- a bard yearning to break out -- an Ilonggo waving chunks of muscovado