Taken from the Foolish People blog:
I. Written on Feb 14th, Valentine’s Day, posted by Frater Kaotec
What is life?
A brief moment with its pleasures and pains,
mostly its tedium.
Its surprises and dissappointments.
Its memories, that stretch back making it seem long.
Old friends forgotten, new friends unknown.
Aspirations, dreams of long standing
broken on the shores of time?
Fears suppressed and erupting,
often prophecy.
Past times are they meaningful?
Once perhaps.
Death? A waste?
An ultimate proof of meaninglessness?
The ultimate certainty and truth!
We will meet it soon,
should we wait?
II. Continued on 18th Feb, my birthday, still from Foolish People’s post
Four days on.
Two days of free fall into the pit,
not denying, accepting and experiencing.
At the bottom lies a still place.
The darkness so great, a light emerges.
Above us a dark tunnel,
Beyond us an open plain.
What was once a narrow dark vision,
now an open plain of possibility.
Meaning is not found, it is made.
By our own efforts alone can we be reborn,
alone and in great company,
The solidarity of the fallen.
III. Finished on March 6, my best friend’s birthday, by me
If chance causes great opportunites
begotten, created, sought, seized
Then each challenge is a chance.
How do I move forward into the light?
Weapons in my hand
A battlecry from my throat
A goal in my mind
The spirits around me forge my courage.
I feel the earth shaking, vibrating
with the energy of the force.
One thing I have forgotten:
To lift my chin up, for above me lies hope.
~ Happy birthday my Miel, my best friend, my life partner, mahal kong Miel ng buhay ko. Mahal na mahal kita.
