flood in España

Flood –
and the sky did cry
let all her tears down
‘til the water goes knee deep
murky teeming with dirt

España –
the busy street in Manila
where traffic always slows down
students and workers go by
to get their life around

Flood in España –
Oh, that event of the year
when classes are abruptly suspended
yet students find it annoying
trapped in the middle of the lake.

death

I could have met you this night-

don in black satin carrying the scythe -
ready to strike my flesh in excite:

while driving car to city street
maybe a drunken man I meet
beside I find you on seat

or perhaps the darkness in sky
order an armed and give a try
then shoot me in the eye

a dagger could cut my heart
leaving it a bloody art
into two the muscles will part,

but this I tell you dear Death
grateful I am that you never set
tonight my dying he does not let.

pesteng ulan 'to

Bakit hanggang sa loob ng sasakyan
ako'y iyong sinusundan
dumadampi sa nanlalamig ko ng balat

nakuha mo pang makasulok sa kaliit-liitang butas
na sa bubong ikaw ring may gawa
layunin ako ay gambalain

sa likod di ako mapakali, napapaupong nakayuko
iniiwasan ang basa mo
katabi ko nasisiksik na sa gilid

kahit antok aking nalabanan
salamat sa'yong walang pakundungang patak
ngunit balewala, sakit ng ulo ang humalili

pati ba naman sa Naga nakuha mo pang magpakita
sumuksok na lang ako sa mga dampa
nang di mo maabutan

kung bakit ba naman ako'y pinahihirapan
maglakad man o tumakbo nakabuntot pa rin
kaya sa bahay, basang-basa ako nakarating.

at Panganiban Avenue

Here I stand waiting
concrete road to my place
mobiles meet and pass by
smokes belching from every tail

here I stand waiting
under the fury of the noon sun
bleeding my every water
til they soak dry my shirts

here I stand waiting
the clouds change to dark
drops fall down my face
dripping wet my vulnerable coat

here I stand waiting
thirty minutes gone by
still no sign of a ride home
better I give up and walk instead.