View from the Cebu International Golf and Resort, Cebu, Philippines

Taken at Panagsama, Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines

Extra Fine Blue

I've disappeared

Misty vapors

Into my day to day

Existence

Sporadically

Flickering

Towards reality

Animated

My mind

A blank canvas

With knotted

Imperfections

Occasionally

Painted with

Extra fine blue

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Sometimes

With the light fingers

Of consciousness

But there are times

When the hand

Is heavy with lunacy

Piercing through

Gut wrenching

Thoughts

Wavering

On the line

Between

Inner and outer

Characters

Internally

Craving solitude

Outwardly

An outgoing

Life force

Conflicted

I am

Quite comfortable

In my own skin

But is my skin

Comfortable with me?

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The Tsinilas

The motorbikes go

Vrrrrm, vrrrrrmm, vrrrrrrmmm

Behind me, loud fumes

Reach my nostrils, my ears

The constant blaring

Of horns, so normal

Oh so normal here

Like the sun, the sweat

The tsinilas

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1 AM Run

Fluorescent light

My reassurance

Shines down on me

Through leaves

Disgracefully

Flirting

With the bats

That flit

Above my head

I'm fascinated

By what I can't see

I've missed the bus

I wait to catch

The 1 am run

To the badlands

While

A love song plays

In the background

That's all they ever

Play here

Exhausted

And aching

I fantasize of

My cold bed

Instead yellow

Plastic chairs

Cut into my ribs

My bony wrist

Pretending

To be a pillow

I hear my blood

Pumping loudly in my ears

I'm surrounded

By curiosity

I can see

The question marks

In bright neon

Blinking on and off

On their foreheads

Watching me

As I

Watch them

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