kinatay

until then

you asked me to travel to that other place to finally see each other once more. i could not oblige that time, i was without, afraid i might find myself lost once more, unguided, and still not settled. i pushed for that other far end to see and find and deliver and become.

now i find myself almost. you never asked again. i am asked to to travel to that other place to see again... how far i've managed to find, how strong i've delivered, and how firm i may have become. and i have decided to go see, find, deliver and become. whatever fate holds for each of us, i pray we see our lights again.

sasing

kinilaw-ready, fresh from the coastal sands of tablas island in romblon.

ginaling

in a good mood

lechon

tubig, banka

towards my fourth day tomorrow, i have not been around that much. from this screen however, i went back to the port of sibuyan island in romblon.

to that sickness place

feeling he's crossing over to that sickness place, with a decision to make
he takes a pill.

clinging

on the verge of falling, fall graciously.
nearly breaking down, break honorably.

and the mallet will splinter
into a multitude of gashes and wounds,
bleed and pain,

let go.



then, a re-creation of what is called formidable.

push

nature. as it was, as it is, as it will be. that is the dynamic flexibility of nature. it is nature. it is in our nature.

he paused to think. if it must be, there must be distinctions or stratifications or levels in nature as i can never see in my nature to stoop that low.



if only he could continue driving on, until his destination, but cars could not run free. his sanity gone thinner, he could always choose to push the truck to move down a steep decline, though it will definitely send him crashing down.


alas there are people who, for utter baseness, with, apparently, a fancy whim to corrupt others, choose and claim lies, and achieve objectifying their self-acclaimed greatness. such, he thought, brings a developmental downfall. artificial markets, artificial needs, and artificial claims, corporate or personal, work to market specific interests. his story was manipulated to serve as an artificial tool for baseness, as he digressed from focusing on the road to the opened mouth of a tiger. memento mori.



the world opened numerous opportunities. the fly opted to be small, but with the ability to thrive copiously. the cockroach went into ready hiding. and bottom-dwellers.




the car need not run. crowded, they can blend in, he heard. and there is always the sea. vast and seemingly endless.

crossroads

they came at the start of the tenth year.

the pushes and pulls were overwhelming.


she could not fathom the ins and outs of each option.

he could not simply decide which should be the more practical road.


i, on the other hand, still had to needlessly sort the relevance, whatever it meant for them.

away

i'll be away for a number of days.

it could be
that
in my absence,
people will tell stories, seemingly far-fetched or twisted.
as they are beyond me,

so wish me back well
in a sort of

a homecoming.

should i fall... (2)

poblacion magdiwang

lumbia falls

it tells me i have to have my sensor cleaned again. i told it, some other time when i am more steady. i could point no finger, when time and everything seemed to have stopped while in romblon.

passing through

almost three, he is still passing through this phase, metamorphosing.

he is waiting here. a she is waiting many miles away. they are waiting also. for how long more?

beep. beep. beep. just passing through, so i don't fall.

life is good

...roasting pig in looc, romblon

sibuyan rainfall

on board m/v maria xxxxx from san agustin in tablas island, romblon to magdiwang in sibuyan island, romblon, rainfall waits as we slowly approach the destination.