encounter no.1

i let the soft drizzle kiss my face
as i walked so slow,
as i walked towards you.
you were not looking
but you were anticipating my coming.
or was it rather,
my anticipation of being near you.
because each step made forward
increased the beating of my heart.
nothing else could be heard
but my nervous heart.
i felt warmth on my face
and only then did i realize
how close you were already.
i could feel the beat in my head
the sweat of my heart.
such an effort to see things straight
to keep a conscious understanding
of our presence together
not in any better place
but in this reality.

the sun is hidden

and there's nothing to see

but the elegance you breathe out
and the beauty you exude.

there was nothing else to understand
but the sweetness of this encounter.

to love

By Love's grace there is no worrying
if not for the obstacles we set upon ourselves.
Because there is no measure in which love sees

To love without measure
To cease the love never.

Because to love is to be selfless and to be true
to be selfless is to let Love govern our hearts
and to be true is to will what Love wills.

sing hymns

when you let your happy thoughts linger long enough, it would stay there for as long as you will it to be.

you whispered a hymn
i knew long before time
i hushed myself to silence
just to make sense out of that hymn.
my heart hesitated to beat
for fear of interfering
but then the tune faded away
as my heart lost its beat
hush my heart...
hush, stop making a sound,
it stopped, and listened
to nothing but deadened silence
sing, it says, sing.
my heart started to hum
until i hear the hymn again
no notes, no melody
but it sang
with harmony.
without certainty
but with clarity.
as if the music would never stop
as if the music would go on and on.
as if on and on, as if on and on
i listen as if it will never stop
and i listen, until on and---
on.





and then it went on
as if it never stopped
but it just did and it was constant
and you never notice
because you sing the song yourself
in your head you hear the song
without notes, without melody
but just harmony.
the song in your head, it stops
but you continue to hear the song
as if on and on,
as if on and on.

until
the beat of your heart
has become the beat of the song

and now it sings
the notes and tune,
the melody,
the song of your heart.
with harmony
you are at peace,
with peace,
you are in harmony.

left behind

well it doesn't hurt to take a little pause once in a while. before coming to class, i thought of dropping by to my blog, and just see whatever there is to see. i saw my past entries and remembered how my past days/weeks went. and it felt weird to see my very last entry about that strange condition. so much has happened between then and now, and all the thoughts, emotions and feelings along with that poem rushed back and made me stare blankly on the screen for a couple of seconds. and then i snapped back and realized i've gotten past that. the now has been totally different from then and the next will be even more different.

it feels like my life's moving at a fast-paced rate, and it doesn't feel like i'm catching up pretty well. once in a while i catch my breath trying to say, "slow down," but then it moves on... moves on as if i didn't say anything. now i'm moving on my own pace, seeing my life get ahead of me, waiting until the time comes it realizes it needs me, waiting for it to look back and see what it's left behind.

strange condition

just a hint of it
and i choose to falter
just a glimpse of it
and it's more than enough.
not one of them makes sense
but just that. just it. just because.

delay

dilly dally. dilly dally. dilly daily. daily dally.
it's hard to get my thoughts right these days.

hence, delay.