What is there to say

 
Something as poignant as a work of art,

 
But something so simple as Hello,

 
Wrapped in a bouquet of silk

 
That rustles in the wind,

 
But never heard,

 
Only Felt - momentarily.

 

(((ashiel.august 3, 2014.sunday.1903hrs.)))

A river of teardrops

Where a flimsy canoe floats

Gently lulling me to sleep.

A dreamless state that claws sharply

Covering the sliver of hope.

But nothing moved,

Even in my dreams.

A haunting sleep

Never to awaken.

Peace at last,

Or so I presume.

(((asheil.june 20, 2014.friday)))

The Mirror has Two Faces

A beast hiding behind the mask of a lamb,

Crouching under the flamboyant cloak of disguise,

Hideously concealing under the ordinary,

Bordering on the mediocrity.

A crowned royalty of pretense,

Wreaking havoc on people's trust

Slithering through like a common thief.

Looking in the mirror,

There's a sudden impulse of brief contemplation,

Two reflections looking back,

Sneering, as if to ask,

"Which one is the real you?"

A million fragments lay upon your feet.

A dash of crimson stains the soul.

And there I am,

Lurking in the shadows,

Contemptuous,

Watching your life in ruins.

(((asheil.june 24, 2011.friday.1922hrs)))

photo: desktopnexus

Crossover

Trapped inside the cracks,

Madness slipping through fractured time.

Vivid colors in turbulent strokes,

Trailing half the sky

Draped in tenderness.

(((asheil.february 18.2014.tuesday.2049hrs.)))

photo: @ Francisco Bangoy Internat'l Airport ( Davao Int'l Airport)

"Let someone love you just the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel and as unaccomplished as you think you are.  

To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."

(The Things We Say as posted on Rantings of a Beautiful Mind)

photo courtesy: desktopnexxus.

"Sometimes, you can't explain what you see in a person. 

Only that they take you to a place where no one else can."

photo: Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur

               9th February 2014 

Untamed Heart

The leaves have fallen,

It's the end of another season.
Despair and ecstasy keening in my soul

Parallel worlds of holding on and letting go,
Never knowing where one ended and the other began.

I don't want to go a thousand miles,

I just need to run away.

A solitary prayer of an untamed heart.

(((asheil.january 6.2014.monday.1920hrs.)))