Hindi Ito Tula 4

Naniniwala akong
Mayroong simula
Upang may magbigay-daan
Sa pagwawakas
Ng kuwento,
Ng pangarap,
Ng buhay,
Upang mabatid ang dahilan
Sa likod ng mga pangyayaring
Nagbubuklod
Sa mga tauhan
Nakakalungkot man,
Nakakatuwa,
Nakakamuhi,
O nakakawasak man ng katinuan.
At upang ang ilang linya
Ng kalituan ay panandaliang
Mamaalam sa paglikha
Ng mga kabit-kabit na salitang
Madalas ay nagpapanggap na tula…

Saka na muna,
Marahil, mga ilang sandali rin
Ng pamamahinga…

Published: Dangadang V.5©

penpushed at 10:26:35 post meridian

Sometimes
You
Get
Betrayed
By
Your
Own
Verse.

It takes form in your thoughts
And come alive in the friction
Between the tip of your pen
And glazed white paper
Only to have it consume you.

It invades you
As if it only existed
To destroy.
It shuns your conscience
Like it never knew
That it was you
That created its existence.

It faces you
And seeks your eyes
To deny your control
And claim
That though it flows
Out of your skin
It is its lines that
Own
You,

And can break you…