empress

the way your presence shouts,
commands the world to pay
obeisance to her imperial
majesty,
compels the undivided awe
of years,
trembles the ground,
you walk in conscious beauty,
unconsciously;
you laugh,
and against all protestations of this
soul,
you clamp the shackles
and seal the binding
of my fall.

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bantayan dreams

i could almost taste
the tang of the salty air,
and feel the water’s foamy embrace,
the grit of sand beneath my feet,
and the sun upon my face…
seeing your smile
takes me there, too.
and it’s like
i am feasting my eyes upon the vista,
basking under the same sky,
away from the tumult and the noise,
and i can imagine
gazing at shoals and [...]

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