I get to be me
and everybody gets to be everybody
And when I get to be me
I hide in places
Go on a perpetual journey
travel alone
and never go hack home
When I get to be me
I dwell in the dews of the morning
or in the solemnity of the rain
Beneath the stars
In the earnest sanctuaries
No one has ever seen
When I get to be me
I'm in the books I read
In the lines of Poe
In the grief of Plath
I am the bitterness of Hughes
the bloody desires of Bundy
But oftentimes
I'm the letters
Better still,
the meanings.
I can take you to parks
places
museums
and kiss you
and taste you
like blood in my mouth
Yet not unless you find me.
When I get to be me
I can make you believe
That black is white
that dark is light
I can make you cry
I can make you whine
Because I can ruin you
In any way you've never thought.
I'm in the air you breathe
In the waters of a desolate moor
I'm the clothes you never wear
I'm the old turquoise belt
I am the road, the vintage cooper
I can be anywhere
That I can't find my path home
So, everytime I fade away
to verge on another fate
please, find me
find my soul
snap me back
and I'm yours forever
Ebon Literati
Sabado, Disyembre 27, 2014
Biyernes, Agosto 15, 2014
Heroes' plea
Amidst the blast of blood, we fought
Within the unrelenting sorrows
we persevere-
an eagle soaring high over the wind
a kneeling devoted
a staunch soldier that persists-
in spite the fading light.
We tried and then we died
we ate the mud, the mire, the pride
drank slowly the mockery and cried
selflessly. Over the fields, we muttered
"our dream home be freed", but the sun went down,
against our will the fire in our hearts flown
away, leaving embers and dim dismay
gave up,
surrendered
yet, death shan't be the end.
Death shan't be the end.
here in the afterlife, we plea
to the people of the east.
Move, stir, ye, shall not sleep
open your eyes
with fierceness that kills
ye shall go farther
'ye people of the rising sun
continue, what we, heroes,
unspoken or not
started.
ye shall go further.
Death shan't be the end.
Within the unrelenting sorrows
we persevere-
an eagle soaring high over the wind
a kneeling devoted
a staunch soldier that persists-
in spite the fading light.
We tried and then we died
we ate the mud, the mire, the pride
drank slowly the mockery and cried
selflessly. Over the fields, we muttered
"our dream home be freed", but the sun went down,
against our will the fire in our hearts flown
away, leaving embers and dim dismay
gave up,
surrendered
yet, death shan't be the end.
Death shan't be the end.
here in the afterlife, we plea
to the people of the east.
Move, stir, ye, shall not sleep
open your eyes
with fierceness that kills
ye shall go farther
'ye people of the rising sun
continue, what we, heroes,
unspoken or not
started.
ye shall go further.
Death shan't be the end.
AGAINST THE WORLD
Keeping an eye around
as we walk
through
the blurred choices
We never imagined we'd take.
We were forbidden
for we are a sin
From the pools of wide mouthed
grinning, mocking jury
we can never be.
Day by day beneath the moonlight
we're giving in desires
Skin to skin we're risking hearts
Laying out all we got
for amid me is a weak spot
a burning hole
a flawful gap
wherein you stick yourself solid rock,
wherein I find myself eternally trapped
so i keep my eyes around
as we s t r i d e along
afraid of recognition
from the glaring traitors
who don't undertsand
who won't understand
for them
we will never ever be.
And we endure
for they don't know
and will never know
how shrouded and deep
it is
when our night gets tired and dull
when stars in us lost their lights
when your hands clasp mine
and your eyes plead
everytime your lips get firm
saying 'tonight, we're one'.
that against the world
we are one.
as we walk
through
the blurred choices
We never imagined we'd take.
We were forbidden
for we are a sin
From the pools of wide mouthed
grinning, mocking jury
we can never be.
Day by day beneath the moonlight
we're giving in desires
Skin to skin we're risking hearts
Laying out all we got
for amid me is a weak spot
a burning hole
a flawful gap
wherein you stick yourself solid rock,
wherein I find myself eternally trapped
so i keep my eyes around
as we s t r i d e along
afraid of recognition
from the glaring traitors
who don't undertsand
who won't understand
for them
we will never ever be.
And we endure
for they don't know
and will never know
how shrouded and deep
it is
when our night gets tired and dull
when stars in us lost their lights
when your hands clasp mine
and your eyes plead
everytime your lips get firm
saying 'tonight, we're one'.
that against the world
we are one.
Miyerkules, Hulyo 30, 2014
Martes, Hulyo 29, 2014
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