My girlfriend has coveted
Installed bookshelves
For over thirty years.
She has imagined them
Bookending her hearth,
When a visitor walks up
To scan her collection.
She has books lying about
On her tables, my tables,
A few on outside tables.
She is an insatiable reader,
But never had shelves.
So, as a double gift,
I fabricated,
Installed and stained
To match her gum wood mouldings.
From vision to reality,
Better than Plato.
She's so pleased and proud
She refuses to use them;
To distract the viewer's looks
With books.

I'm old enough to remember
**** Tracy's watch,
Kirk's communicator,
Needless injections,
Landlines, TV,
Head transplants,
And meeting for coffee.
You're young enough
To remember simpler times
Of virtual friends
Twelve thousand miles away,
3D transportation,
And clouds that don't rain.
The good ole days.

-

I heard her
melodic voice
   this morning
as the sun rose
   and my heart
    felt the
dawning of
    *perfect harmony

I took my skeletons
And put them in the closet
Way back where no one
Could ever find them
But the noise of clacking bones
Haunted me daily.

You came along
And opened the doors
Danced with the skeletons under sunlight
Until their bones crumbled to dust

And held my hand as the dust was carried away by the wind

In that cut slice moment
To mine wrists
As she said
(I can't do this)

Mine heart
Cracked
As glass
To a lonesome mirror

For tis I
Did nothing wrong
But show mine own amour'

Pain radiates to mine brain
The blood of these veins
Gashes the floor!!!!

I am with you always
In heart and mind
I always think of you
Especially now-
Who are you with?
What are you doing?
How do you feel?
It's the same feeling
While I am waiting for the day
That I can answer those questions
By merely looking at you
While you are resting by my side

it's been a few hours
and a few drinks
i miss you

Minahal,
Pinaasa,
Binitiwan,
Tinulak,
Bumalik,
Hinabol,
Nahulog,
Nasaktan,
Iniwan.

Mga salitang tinuro sa atin noong kabataan,
Ngayon mga salitang atin iniiwasan.
Minsan ako'y magtatanong,

Anong pagkukulang ko?
Bakit iniwan mo ako?
Saan ako nagkamali?
Paano ko maibabalik?

Hinihintay ko mula sa iyo,
Sabihin **** "Nagkamali ako",
Pero ang nakita ko'y mga luha mo,
Hinihingi ang pagpapatawad ko.

Sana hindi na lang,
Sana wala na lang,
Sana umiwas na lang,
Mga sana na hindi ko pinakinggan,
Ngayon ako'y luhaan.

Pero isang bagay ang hindi ko pinagsisihan,
Ang mga masasayang bagay na ating pinagasamahan,
Mananatili sa puso ko na parang mga litrato,
Lumain man ng panahon ay babalik balikan ko.

Pinasaya,
Pinakilig,
Pinatawa,
Pinangiti.