It is inevitable to sometimes reminisce about the days gone by. My trip back down memory lane was triggered by the need to tidy up my room. With Gregorian Chants on the background I found a pack of pictures that I took for the last subject that I took for my undergrad degree. Film 110 was a free elective and all we did was take pictures, develop and print them, and the teacher gets to critique your work. Anyways… I also found an old notebook of bits of prose that I wrote back then. It was the late 1990’s the last days of the last century.
These were the pictures that I took and the words I put down on paper… back when I was younger.
Words # 2
Staring at the ceiling
Sitting on the couch
Asking questions
and finding no answers
Searching for reasons
Hoping to survive
Dreading reality
Hating my life
Contemplating death
While craving for life
Staring at the ceiling
Sitting on the couch
Asking questions
and finding no answers
Searching for reasons
Hoping to survive
Dreading reality
Hating my life
Contemplating death
While craving for life
ROCK
As night descends
the stars shine out again
like gems beyond ones reach
they fill my eye's
yet leaves my heart heavy
another leaf falls
and here I sit waiting
no movement, no life
just watching the world go by
weathered away by the seasons
a rock crumbling inside
As night descends
the stars shine out again
like gems beyond ones reach
they fill my eye's
yet leaves my heart heavy
another leaf falls
and here I sit waiting
no movement, no life
just watching the world go by
weathered away by the seasons
a rock crumbling inside
Ulan
Isang araw sa panahon ng tag-init
Kasabay sa pagtulo ng pawis
and aking pananabik
maibsan ang pighating dala ng init
hinihintay and pag-ihip ng hangin
na sanay sundan ng pagbuhos ng ulan
ulan na galing sa langit
at nagbibigay kulay
sa mga bulaklak at halaman
ulan na siyang papawi sa uhaw
ng aking kalooban
Tila naawa ang mga ulap
dahan dahang bumuhos ang ulan
ngunit kaakibat nitoy kulog at kidlat
na naging hadlang sa aking inaasam
Ang dikta ng aking isipan
ay sumilong mula sa ulan
ngunit ang bulong ng damdamin
ay salubungin siya
ng walang pakundangan
Dying
I dream of dying
cause life is all screwed up
and the horizon is painted
with dark colors
and dreadful hues
I dream of dying
cause I've arrived nowhere
and I've lived a life
of unending strife
But I wouldn't want to die
Because I also still dream of living
hoping to be happy
living and alive
But if I am to die
let it be on a glorious day
and with a blink of an eye
I hope to breathe my last
knowing that I did
while standing steadfast
I dream of dying
cause life is all screwed up
and the horizon is painted
with dark colors
and dreadful hues
I dream of dying
cause I've arrived nowhere
and I've lived a life
of unending strife
But I wouldn't want to die
Because I also still dream of living
hoping to be happy
living and alive
But if I am to die
let it be on a glorious day
and with a blink of an eye
I hope to breathe my last
knowing that I did
while standing steadfast
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