polished

look here,
the answers to your questions
do not belong
to a faraway shore,
and the star
upon which your wishes flew
is from your beaches, too,
so please,
open your eyes,
look here,
i have polished my soul
so it could shine
for you.
——
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6/7/02
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intramuros (an introspection)

these walls of an ancient sacrifice,
i walked its battlements today,
traversed its crennelations,
caressed the silent mouths of its anger,
as memory brought me back,
i wonder how they who came before me
looked at these massive buttresses,
ancient armor of a city forced
to pay obeisance to a foreign land,
did they fear these walls, i wonder,
did they pray each night
that these [...]

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