love is dead
(the wind blows lonely)
but there is a return
to moonlight on the beach
where her laughter keeps thundering
across the fragile brain.
the world laughs
the sun is a fiery disc in the sky
but there is a cold cold corner
at dawn
morning is the beginning
of a thousand deaths.
2.
there is order in the world:
war, famine, thirst,
death, immorality, crime against
property, all are
parts indivisible
even hallucinations.
and the poet asks:
will it end in fire or ice?
i say neither.
the world will end
when i no longer see myself
in your eyes.
when the chain
of love snaps
in two, breaking
like brittle twig.
*included in the Ilokano-English anthology, "Umayka Manen, Ganggannaet/Come Again, Stranger" with critical introduction written by Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
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