Friday, February 18, 2005
rain-soaked sky
I knelt before
the heavens,
and prayed for that
one great flood
to let the storm
take me away, away
from my dry,
desert soil.
I waited for water
to touch this barren land:
a drop to feel a soul,
a drop to bend a poet's heart,
a drop to kiss a lover goodnight.
And in this darkness—
where not even
the stars could see us—
I drank the rain.
In my room
(02/18/05)
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Naisulat para sa nagdaang gabi na umulan sa Diliman ng sobra-sobra pero ako lang ang nabasa.
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