tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77013342042596718042024-02-20T07:26:30.521-08:00The Weird and Perverse Theatrewelcome to a world where reality is madly distorted...The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-4513795371385745282014-05-04T21:56:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:58:45.523-07:00As She Dreamt of Time<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She woke up feeling like a million pesos. Her husband was at her bedside, waiting for her to wake up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Wake up darling. Happy birthday. I love you.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The husband sealed the deal with a kiss and he took her to the kitchen for breakfast. The kids were also there, their smiles warmer than the sun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Happy birthday, mom!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The kids sweetened the cake with their soft embraces. Everything is perfect, she thought. All my life I've wanted nothing but to have a life like this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I love you guys.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A tear fell down and she woke up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She is a wreck. This house is a wreck. The stench of her drunk husband assailed her nostrils.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CRASH. The drunk smashed a plate in anger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Damn it woman! Where's my breakfast?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She passed by the calendar and she noticed that it's her birthday. She dared not mention it, for fear of her husband's wrath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Too late, youngest son already started crying. The drunk bastard hit the kid across the face, making him cry harder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Fuck this! I'm going back to drinking!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She slowly collapsed into a sobbing heap. What did I ever do to deserve this? I'd give everything just to have a better life than this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She felt the moisture of her tears on her palms, only to found out that it was her drool.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Was I dreaming about my mother just now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She woke up to the sound of her classmates laughing at her. She wiped her mouth and the professor handed her the test result.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You aced it. Congratulations. The University is waiting for you.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The jeers turned to cheers and she threw her hands in the air.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her hands fell slowly and the world suddenly turned dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She woke up in a dark, cramped place. The smell of the place was rather offensive to the nostrils.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“HELP! SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE!” Someone turned on the light and she realized she was on a bathroom stall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, this is awkward.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The handsome man from across the table woke her from her daydream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She realized that she is in a fine dining restaurant with the finest of cuisines before her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Is this still a dream?” she asked the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“What do you think?” the man replied with his dimpled smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a blur again, and the shrill cry of a baby woke her again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Your son! Give him his milk already!” shouted an older woman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Ah, forget about it.” and she went back to sleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She woke up in her rocking chair exhausted. Though she wanted to move and reach for the picture frame on the table, she couldn't; her old bones would not move any more. She looked out the window and saw that the sun is already halfway down the horizon. The sky is turning orange, and the birds are getting ready to rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so was she.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-14741927791939472782012-04-28T01:12:00.002-07:002012-04-28T01:13:39.610-07:00To Kill A Leviathan<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How come,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How come?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I still feel the pain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You left me with?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Could it be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Could it be?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That there is something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of love that remains?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No more,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No more!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These wounds I bear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Had been burned shut.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Say it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Say it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scream your apology</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For your betrayal!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just die,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just die!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cruel memories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of days gone by.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-50923345804037102182011-09-17T01:59:00.000-07:002013-10-24T01:18:18.074-07:00The Bus Stop<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">THE BUS STOP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“TIT-TIT-TIT!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The alarm clock’s squeal yanked him out of bed. With a reluctant grunt, he pulled himself towards the bathroom to take a shower. When he was done prepping himself up for work, he left his apartment and locked the door behind him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As he made his way towards the bus terminal, he noticed that the people around him were unnaturally glum. The neighbor’s dog who would usually bark angrily at him never even noticed him. Along the way, he noticed several bizarrely blissful people walking in the same direction he is going to.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“What a strange day,” he muttered to himself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He tried to console himself with the fact that when he gets to the bus queue, he’ll see the same people who usually lines up for the morning bus ride. The fat college girl with her crammed bag, the old man and his suitcase, and the office lady who carries three phones would be there.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What he saw there instead was a long line of unfamiliar faces giddy with excitement, as if it would be their first time to ride a bus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Okay,” he declared. “I would now mark this day in the calendar as ‘Strange Day’.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He made his way to the end of the queue and asked the person in front of him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Excuse me, where is this bus going to?” he said as the man turned to him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“It’s going where YOU should be going!” the man answered in a very happy tone, turned back, and then resumed humming happily to himself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A bus went in, and the queue filed inside, but when it was his turn to get in, the conductor stopped him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Sir, this bus is full. Please wait for the next one. Thank you,” the conductor said before the automatic doors slid shut.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He watched in confusion and frustration as the bus wheeled away. Just as soon as the previous one was gone from sight, another one arrived at the terminal. It was smaller than the other one, but he didn’t mind—it just means he would be getting to work soon enough. The conductor’s gaze followed him as he settled in a seat three rows away from the door.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Are we all set?” the driver asked the conductor, to which the portly man answered with a nod. The driver then turned the engine on, and navigated away from the terminal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This surprised the lone passenger as there are still people waiting behind him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Boss,” he called out to the conductor. “Aren’t we waiting for the bus to fill up?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“They aren’t going the same direction as you are, anyway,” answered the conductor while he was busy scribbling notes on his little notepad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The man then assumed that the bus would just pick more passengers up at the stops they would be passing through.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He settled on that conclusion, and sank back in his chair and turned his attention to the movie playing on the TV mounted at the front of the bus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It was showing a tiny patch of light which was slowly growing and growing until there was a blinding flash, and the sound of a crying infant filled the room. When the flash subsided, doctors wearing protective masks and medical gowns were visible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a boy,” they declared.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It was then that he realized that he had just watched a birth scene, and it was from the baby’s point-of-view. The infant was then handed to his waiting arms of the mother, who, despite her fatigue from her labor, did her best to portray the immense joy she felt through her lips.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The man turned away from the movie for a quick second, slid the curtains away and checked outside to see how much longer the trip would go. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“WHAT THE HELL?!” he exclaimed out loud as he saw the San Isidro Hospital. Seeing the said hospital means he is nowhere near where he needs to be.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Where are you taking me?” he shouted his question to the conductor, who was watching the movie quite intently.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“This is just a detour. We’ll get there, promise,” answered the conductor, without turning away from the TV.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Seeing that as a plausible explanation, he returned to the movie. It showed the child’s mother holding him while the father examines the baby’s features.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“He’s got my eyes!” whispered the father.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“You can have the eyes,” whispered the mother back. “He’s got everything else from me, anyway,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The father squinted his eyes and his expression turned into one of surprise.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Hey! No fair! He’s got everything from you!” said the father out loud.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Shh!” the mother scolded the father, as she put a finger to her lips.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Oops, sorry,” the father returned to whispering. “What shall we name him?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Edison,” whispered the mother, as a tear fell from her eye. “We’ll name him after my late uncle. Oh, how happy he would be if he was here,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“He is,” said the father, stroking his wife’s hair and kissing her in forehead.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Edison…my son,” muttered the proud father, and he kissed his son.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Amused as he was to hear that the child had been given the same name as his, he also found it amusing to see that the hospital where the movie was shot was the one they just passed by, as evident on the mother’s hospital gown. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The scene then cuts to a park, where the mother and father were playing with their kid, who is nearly a year old by then. The giggling baby boy was trying to chase his dad with wobbly steps. His run was going relatively smoothly, when suddenly; he stumbled and fell flat on the soft grass. The sound of laughter changed into the sound of the baby’s cries. The father and mother hurriedly rushed to their son’s side and helped him up. They checked the baby for scratches, and when they found none, the father hoisted his son up in the air, and the baby’s laughter returned; gleeful as ever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The next scene was in a kitchen, where the baby was being fed by his father, while the mother was washing the dishes. Suddenly, a plate crashed and the father rushed to his wife, carrying his son. When he got to the kitchen, he saw his wife writhing in pain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Fast forward to a hospital, the family was seated behind a doctor’s table. The father’s face was just as sallow as the mother’s.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Mrs. Ramirez,” began the doctor. “The cancer has spread throughout your body. I’m afraid…you do not have much time left,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Husband and wife held each other tightly, tears streaming freely down their cheeks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“What about chemotherapy? Radiation therapy? I’m sure there is still something we can do!” the husband blurted out.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“The chemotherapy... could help add a few… <i>weeks</i> to her time…” the doctor said, trying his best to pick the better words.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“How long do I still have?” asked the wife bluntly, implying that she needs a straight answer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Three months. Four, tops. I’m very sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Ramirez,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Upon hearing this, the father wailed loudly and held his beloved tight. His wife, trying to be brave, bit back her tears and stroked his husband’s hair. The mother then grabbed her child and sang him a song, still fighting back the tears.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The scene then cut back to the same kitchen, but in this scene, it was in disarray. The child was crying loudly, but the sound never reached the father’s ears, who was just staring at a framed photograph of his wife. Day by day, this scene went on; until one day, the father was found on the floor, eyes closed, mouth stretched in a weak smile, with his beloved’s photo upon his heart.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Cut to an office with Edison as a 5-year-old kid seated in front of a bald man’s desk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“You’ll love it here, Edison,” the man smiled at him. “You’ll get to play with a lot of kids, you’ll read books, everything! Marie, please take Edison to his room,”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A young lady took Edison by the hand and accompanied him. As he turned to look back at the office, he saw the orphanage’s name: <i>Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary Orphanage.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“W-what’s going on?” he asked the conductor, his words tinged with confusion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Look outside,” the conductor replied in the same nonchalant fashion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Edison cast the curtains aside, and he saw the orphanage where he grew up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“What is this? Somebody explain this to me!” Edison knew that they were getting nearer his intended destination. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Can you tell me exactly where you need to be? I’m sure you remember it,” asked the driver from behind the high-backed chair.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then it hit him. He just knew he was going <i>somewhere,</i> but he never had an idea where that <i>somewhere </i>is, or was. He racked his brain for an answer, but there was none.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Keep watching,” said the conductor.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Edison sank back in his chair, confused with everything going on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The scene that played next was set at the orphanage’s front yard, where the young Edison was laughing along with his friends as they played and played all afternoon. He could remember them all—Buddy, the fat kid who farts all the time; Jojo, the smart kid who always sat on the corner with a book; Nene, the curly-haired girl who always gave him candies; and Elmer, his best friend who always shares toys. The surge of memories pushed a tear out of his eye.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“We were so happy then…” he muttered under his breath as he closed his eyes and let nostalgia wash over him. He then began to sing a rhyme which they sang during the lazy days.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">His happy chanting was cut short when he heard a door slam. He reverted his gaze back to the TV, and he saw that his younger self was inside the bald man’s office. Sitting in front of him was a couple and the bald man, who all looked really happy for him. He remembered this as the day when he was adopted by the wealthy De Jacintos who owns a chain of shopping malls, restaurants, and other multinational businesses.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He got everything a kid ever wanted and needed from his foster parents—toys, clothes, food, money, everything. But these material things were his only companions as his parents were always away on business trips and whatnot. If they do come home, they’d be too tired to spend time with him. On the few conversations they’ll usually have, he would always be asked the most mundane of things, like “How did school go?” “Have you pulled up your grades yet?” They would always aim for things that would bring pride for the family, but they never really checked if Edison was genuinely happy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He was pressured by his parents to go to a prestigious high school where he had to pass an intensive entrance exam. He made it there, but not after long and painful hours spent on tedious study. Graduation came, and he did not get the valedictorian spot. This made his old man angry.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“You lazy freeloader! Why can’t you get <i>one damn valedictorian spot</i>?! I got that shit every graduation I attended, and I wasn’t even getting the tutors that you are getting!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To this day, those words still stung him hard. How he wished he could rewind and pause the film so he can gaze at his mother and father’s faces. He wondered how different it would have been if his real parents were still alive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He looked out the window, hoping to see his parents, but what he saw was the mansion where he lived with his foster parents. It was now sealed up, the same way his father did when they left for the States.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He finished college there, this time graduating as a valedictorian; hoping that achievement would do his father proud.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Good.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That was everything the old man said—and he wasn’t even looking, as he was busy reading the business page of the morning paper. “Now you just need a proper job,” the cold man added.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Those words shattered his cracked heart; and he left the frigid dwelling and set for a life of his own. He settled at a city way off from his parents and got a job there in an advertising firm. It was a far cry from the life he was used to, but he was happy—and that was what only mattered. For three years, he lived away from the shadow of the De Jacintos, and during that time, he met and fell in love with Pia, a Fil-Am girl living on the same street with him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then one fateful night, he got a phone call. It was his father.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“You ungrateful pig. Running away from home after everything we gave you? You still have obligations with us!” said the man’s loud, commanding voice. “We already know where you live. I’ll be sending my mean to get you, and you <i>will</i> come back!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Right after that call, he tried to call Pia to talk about moving away, but he cannot reach Pia’s phone. He tried and tried all night, but Pia didn’t pick up. He even tried to reach her via the internet, but she wasn’t online. He tried and tried to reach her, but there were no responses. He didn’t realized that he fell asleep from the exhaustion of the day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He was roused from his unsolicited slumber by a phone call. It was Ria, Pia’s sister. She was sobbing her eyes out.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Ria? Calm down, calm down. Tell me what happened.” Edison calmly asked Pia despite his own anxieties.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“It’s Pia…” Ria started, but her voice was continually getting lost in the midst of tears. “She was… mugged… and… and…”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“And…?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“She was… violated…” Ria was once again lost in a storm of tears.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Where are you? I’m coming over,” Edison’s voice was now an empty husk after what he heard. After Ria gave the directions, Edison drove to the site as mindless as a puppet.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Edison seated on the bus tried to look away from the screen, and he diverted his gaze outside. To his horror, they were passing the same alley where Pia’s body lay mutilated, denied of the compassion she always shared with the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He closed his eyes and covered his ears in a futile attempt to forget the pain. He fought hard, but the memory stormed in like a battering ram through a paper door.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The pain increased exponentially as he remembered the police officer approaching him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Sir,” began the policeman. “We checked her phone, and we found out that she tried to reach you at 9:46 last night.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She did?</i> he thought. He grabbed his phone, and he saw a call at 9:46, alright, but it was his father.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That was when the pain proved to be too much for Edison. His limbs gave way and he let out a mournful wail escorted by a river of tears.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Apart from the agony, he felt a burning hatred for his foster father. Had it not been for the man’s selfish desires, he would have done something for Pia. <i>At least something…<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He returned to his apartment that night a shattered mess. He sprawled across his bed and let a barrage of agony loose. He felt the pain wrenching his heart, and his tears were the juices squeezed forth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“NO!” the Edison in the bus screamed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Edison of the past pulled open a drawer.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“NO! NO! NO!” the present incarnation continued to scream, trying to reach the TV.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The TV showed a sullen man bringing out a revolver; tears falling down his hands as he loaded a bullet in the weapon.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“PLEASE! NO!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He put the gun inside his mouth and pointed it upwards. He took a deep sigh, smiled, and closed his eyes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">BANG.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The screen went black.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Edison was shaking in his seat. He reached for the back of his head, where the exit wound should be, and his fingers touched a sticky substance. When he pulled his hand back, he saw blood.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“I…am…dead?” his quivering voice asked the conductor, who was now seated beside him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Yes, and we’re taking you to where you should be,” explained the conductor.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Can’t we… go back?” asked Edison.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A loud burst of laughter came from the driver.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? People can’t come back from the dead! If you do, you’ll be a zombie by then!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“I’m afraid we can’t take you further up,” the conductor told him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Why not?” </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“I wish we can, but… yours is a suicide... Let’s just say that… suicides are… are… <i>frowned upon</i> up there,” explained the conductor.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Well then, where are you taking me?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“In the bus stop. Others are waiting there, too.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“How long do I have to stay there?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Until you’re allowed to move up… or if somebody picks you up,”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Wha—“</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Their conversation abruptly ended when the bus halted beside a roomy waiting shed flanked by a BUS STOP sign.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Go,” the conductor said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“But I sti—“</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“GO!” the driver turned and shouted at him. “You had your choice, and you chose to end all chances. I bet my ass that Pia wasn’t happy that this happened to you, nor your <i>real </i>parents. You HAD your shot, but you took yours to your own brain. <i>Why did you have to go and let it die? </i>Now move it, or I’ll move your ass for ya!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Edison resigned to his fate and walked clumsily into the shed. There were plenty of bored-looking people waiting inside. A few yards away from the <i>BUS STOP</i> sign, a sunglassed man in a velvet suit was leaning against a black limousine filled with voluptuous ladies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Hey, Ed!” the man called in a deep bass voice. “Why don’t you come over? They didn’t let you go to their place, I’ll let you into mine! With us, you won’t mind your Pia anymore!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Yeah… come in, Edison!” the ladies called out to him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Can I go with you?” asked an old man from the shed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“And me, too?” asked a lady.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Me, too, please,” a teenager asked.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Several more asked to be with the flamboyant man, that he had to call in more limousines to accommodate his guests.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Ed, aren’t you coming along?” asked the velvet man. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Yeah! Come on!” urged the others.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“She isn’t there,”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Well, boy-o,” the suited man, who was now beside him, after a sigh. “Just give me a call. I can come back for you anytime,”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And the man gave Edison a calling card and pointed to the phone mounted on a wall.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“We’ll wait,” said the man, and patted Edison on the back before riding on the lead limo. Edison waited for the limo convoy to be gone from sight before he tore the calling card to shreds. He then looked at the route the bus took, and he saw it was a long, winding, steep mountain trail, and they are not really <i>roads, </i>but paths. They were unpaved, and most are unmarked. It would be tough even for a bus to climb that high. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then, he saw something that the others didn’t. Tucked in a quaint little corner of the shed was a bicycle. He tested it and found it to be in perfect working condition. He then smiled and carried the bike out of the shed and set it right smack in the middle of the road.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He strained his eyes to see the top of the mountain, and he saw a light covered by thick clouds. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Pia is there. Mother and father are there. They couldn’t be anywhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He then took a deep breath, set his sights dead ahead, sat on the bike, and put his feet to the pedals.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“GOING UP!"</span></div>
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The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-79815692134989549172011-05-21T21:04:00.001-07:002011-05-21T21:04:09.443-07:00Beneath the Sampaguita Tree<div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And her beauty.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gentle as an infant's touch,</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As powerful as a bull's charge.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And her smile.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In brightness rivalled by none,</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">None but the sun.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Her sweet voice</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To the ears like aural honey</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Of which only God's taste worthy.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And those soft hands</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Her heavenly caresses</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A treat for the senses.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For I loved her</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not for her facade nor posture;</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But for she had more.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When we met in secret</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lovers in the moonlight</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">'Neath the sampaguita tree's sight.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When she said:</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To our love, God shall be the witness."</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A pact we sealed as we kissed.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And the promise we made</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"To stay forever in each other's arms</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be it in Heaven's grace or Hell's damns."</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When my sorrows began</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">She told me she'd appear,</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But what came was cold fear.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So, so vividly</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As I searched for her high and low</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With my love for her in tow.</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And I still do</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Every night I returned for her</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By the tree, to find her there</blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I remember her </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And it still burns inside</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">She returned pale, blood flowing free.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Where we loved--Beneath the Sampaguita Tree.</blockquote></blockquote>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-48593476115463870662011-05-21T21:02:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:10:20.621-07:00A Strange Place<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I awoke one dreamy morning</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To the sound of steel bellowing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Got up, got dressed, heard a box boom</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beside men trapped in a small room.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I fled like a masked caper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And saw men toil hard for paper.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To this they have become enslaved,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And silly black tablets they craved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Youths move about, heads where feet were,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As to strange tunes their bodies stir.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They worship a squeaking white dwarf</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who dons a bizarre checkered scarf.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Slaves abound, trapped in white boxes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guarded by Hell's flaming foxes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They speak in short bursts of letters,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hunting little colored critters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To a long chamber I was trapped,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As it moved, I had to adapt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the world had gone askew,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As it raced to the time of new.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-19900020217653657922010-01-01T09:42:00.000-08:002011-05-21T21:13:02.983-07:00An Ode to a Goddess<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would sing a song for you</span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll raise my voice and make it heard beyond the mountains</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would mourn for you</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let my dried tears be your solemn memorial</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would have your portrait hung in my bedroom</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I pray those colors would not fade easily</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would offer burnt sacrifices at your feet</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For you are my goddess, eternal and majestic</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would recall how your perfume intoxicated me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So would I with the scent of the flowers upon your tomb</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would never forget to wipe your marble tombstone</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And take heart the lyrical epitaph inscribed therein</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never would I forget how you ensnared me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With the gentle slivers of your passionate love</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For your life has fulfilled mine</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And your death destroyed mine</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">May the angels in heaven care for you now</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And rest happily, my beloved goddess.</span></div>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-76212173081217615632009-12-07T04:33:00.000-08:002011-05-21T21:13:32.352-07:00I Let The Illusion Go<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was nothing to mourn about</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like these cold, stale winds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the poisoned frost that it brings,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I curse the words that came from my mouth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is now time to leave the fantasy behind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The world must go on now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I, too, should follow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And break these chains from my mind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How I loved her surrealism</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her faint yet sweet touch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The smile which intoxicated me too much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the way she pulled me into my own cataclysm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How I marveled at her power</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The way she twisted me around</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And how she thrust me to the ground</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet I still hold her dear like the sweetest flower</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But alas, I know it is time to set her free</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I must continue to my fruitless trail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which ends until to the bone I am frail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the world would just let things be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was never mine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As she was never real</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And her love I never did feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So was that lovely little smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did I really love that nymph?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or was I just lost in the madness of things</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And this I felt were just one of those vague feelings?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maybe, just maybe, was she an embodiment of my own filth?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The answer eludes my mind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I fear it would just be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For there she goes, away from the eye could see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As she leaves, I feel these barbed chains unbind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, I am still a fool</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To this perfect creation I still long to be enchained</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And with love for her my heart is still filled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I must let things be, and let time heal my soul.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-88253873236506707422009-11-26T04:44:00.000-08:002011-05-21T21:10:56.180-07:00Justice (Afterlife edition)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The cold night breeze swept past the city, leaving a shiver to every warm-blooded creature. There is nothing to expect from this stereotype of a city. Nothing new to see—only dilapidated buildings, overflowing dumpsters, abandoned children, old people here and there, and the occasional dead petty criminal. Not the kind of environment you want for the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> Police officer Gomez thought the same, so he didn't bother to raise a family. However, he'd occasionally and unwittingly make a child with a hooker he'd hire during his off-duty hours (sometimes even on duty), and he’ll just leave them.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<em>His life is good</em><span class="apple-style-span">, he often thought.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> He didn't need to dish out money for meals, he'd just come inside an eatery and flash his pistol at the manager, and he'd get anything he wanted, except that young waitress who works during Thursday afternoons. How he wanted to taste young Thursday flesh on a dark alley, but he was so scared of the burly father who works at the kitchen. He looks so big that it seems that a bullet won't mean a thing to him.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Anyways, he'd stroll out of the eatery after meals and ride his motorcycle which he had christened "Moses", because like Moses did with the Red Sea, the vehicles along the motorway would part and make way for him. Those who didn't would drown like the Egyptians—not in seawater, but in ghost fees. His life was good, and so were his other mates at the force. Without them, he thought, the city would be in chaos and disorder.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There were men far greater than Gomez in the force—his deeds were merely child's play in comparison to the others. Some were involved in narcotics trade; some were employed as hired guns and some rape children. How Gomez wished he could be like them, but he hated to admit that he was too much of a pussy to commit their acts of greatness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> On nights that he would be left alone, he'd look up and wonder whether he would be worthy to ascend there when the time comes. He had been such a dick, but he had no choice—his body wants it, his soul craves for it. However, he is a good crime fighter—he took so much delight in busting petty thieves and other little urchins unaffiliated with big criminal groups. He didn't meddle with the boys from the big ones, because he himself isn't with them. He didn't mess with them, nor did he help them.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">A few days ago, he noticed a few persons who seemed to have been following him. He'd feel their stare burning his back. From the city park to the red light district, he could feel them. He'd look for the faces, but they just melted into the crowd—so concealed; so insignificant. For a few moments, they'd be gone, but once in a while, he could feel he's being put under surveillance. He could feel them when he stopped to smoke. He could feel them as he entered the eatery for a free lunch. He could even feel them as he entered the brothel.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<em>They're everywhere</em><span class="apple-style-span">, he thought.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For days and days, that same feeling followed him. Wherever he went, whatever he did, he could feel a pair of eyes or a pair of ears trained on him. Slowly, he thought he was like a rabbit being stalked by silent yet deadly wolves but he just shook that thought off.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<em>I'm the wolf 'round these parts</em><span class="apple-style-span">, he thought to himself, and his anxieties would vanish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> He kept that mentality, and he wasn't disturbed by the stalkers anymore. They were still there, but he just didn't mind them. As a matter of fact, the thought of having someone watch him made him even bolder—the cigarette vendor whom he used to give a coin for a smoke would now see a gun and would lose a pack of cigarettes from her wares. Gomez even took a hooker and didn't bother to do the deed in the brothel. Instead, he took his pleasure of the woman in a damp and dark alleyway. "You like that? WOO!" he'd ask out loud after he did these things, much to the perverted delight of his woman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> One day, the stalkers thought they wanted to be noticed by Gomez, so they stepped up the act. Gomez was on Moses, and when the traffic light turned red, a dark sedan with tinted windows pulled to his right. He was strangely drawn to this vehicle, and when he turned to look, the driver lowered his window to look at the cop through dark sunglasses. Gomez tried to approach the driver, but the light turned green and the sedan sped, leaving the gutsy cop dumbfounded. However, Gomez saw the plate number and made sure he remembered it.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<em>No one looks at me like that</em><span class="apple-style-span">, he murmured through clenched teeth.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There was another day when he was walking along the city's crowded and sweaty streets, he walked past a man wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sunglasses. He was not the sedan driver, but they had the same burning stare. Gomez tried to get the guy, but he seemed to have vanished into the crowd. Every day, he saw men wearing sunglasses looking at him and most of the time, they'd pass by him. Everytime he tried to apprehend one of them, they'd simply vanish. It was strange and irritating for Gomez. Each day he saw one of them, it slowly drove him mad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> He saw them enough for one day that he had some beer and let the alcohol take over the thought of the sunglassed men in his mind. He went to his favorite eatery for dinner, drunk and stressed. To his surprise, the young and pretty waitress was there, even though it was not a Thursday afternoon. Due to drunken wanton, he grabbed the young lady and tried to kiss and touch her in the parts a father would be angry to see.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The girl started to scream, and her huge father came bursting out of the kitchen with a knife, red with rage. The angry father's raging eyes and the policeman's drunken eyes met. Gomez shoved the girl aside and bared his fists to the huge man, issuing a challenge. The man dropped his knife and assumed a fighting stance. Gomez rushed to the man with a fist, but the huge man was surprisingly fast and Gomez was drunk. Gomez swung and missed, but the man hit with strong and fast blows. Gomez thought he had the man with a straight, but the angry father parried the strike and hit Gomez with a straight of his own to the face, which sent Gomez to the floor. As Gomez hit the floor, all the alcohol left his system and he was able to think clearly. The man stooped to Gomez and grabbed his collar to hit him again, but the policeman was able to draw his pistol and shot the burly man in the chest.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">From the corner of his eye, he saw three sunglass-wearing men observing him throughout the whole murderous ordeal. When he turned around, he saw that the dusty street had a lot of sunglassed men scattered throughout the crowd. By this, he was driven mad and pursued the two nearest him, leaving the father dying and the daughter crying for help while cursing Gomez at the top of her lungs.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The sunglassed men fled as they realized they were being chased by Gomez. Gomez, in his fleeting frustration, ran after the two fleeing strangers, determined to get them this time. He felt that it all seemed to be part of some elaborate plan. Even with that knowledge, he just let it unfold before him, thanks to his cockiness. The two men hastily entered an old apartment building. Gomez charged through the rickety doors and he saw the two men flying up the stairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"> As Gomez reached the second floor landing, he found out that he had lost track of the two strangers. Just as he was about to go berserk out of frustration, he heard a door slam shut, revealing where his targets are. He raced up the corridor, towards the door.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> He kicked the door open, and he saw the two men lying on the floor without the sunglasses. He saw two pairs of blank and lifeless eyes coupled with foaming mouths. They've poisoned themselves, as if they've served their purpose already. On a corner of the room, Gomez saw something which confirmed his conspiracy theory—there were pictures of the whole police force pinned up on the wall. On a nearby table, there were thick folders each labeled with names of the police officers, including him.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> He read all the folders carefully, and for every first page (except the one labeled for him), it was stamped with the word "execution". He looked for details on how the "execution" would be carried out, but there were none, just the extensive profiles of the policemen. In his sober days, Gomez thought that this was coming—judgment to all their evils. He knew that they deserved it, but why not him too? Was he not evil enough?</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> He read the folder for their chief, Colonel Marco Marquez, and he saw the date for the intended execution and to his surprise, it was scheduled for that same day. He quickly made his way back to the headquarters to look for the chief to warn him of his impending doom. Like a madman, he hastily made his way to the headquarters on foot while cold sweat raced down his neck.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> He passed by the eatery, where moments ago, he had just murdered an innocent man. However, the eatery is now crowded with people, along with a medical team and their ambulance, and a news team with a reporter interviewing Chief Marquez-- just the person Gomez was looking for.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"We shall not tolerate the misbehaviors of our men in the force and we shall punish them to the fullest extent of the law!" he heard the Chief say to the reporter.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"Chief! You are in danger!" Gomez called to his superior, drawing all the attention to him.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"There! This demon must be put to the hand of justice at once!" the chief then ordered two of the rookies in the force (who knew nothing of the misdeeds of their seniors), to seize Gomez.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> The Chief saw to it that Gomez would be seen before the camera while he preached about what loyalty and integrity is, as opposed to what Gomez had done. Gomez, on the other hand, continued to voice his warnings, but was unnoticed by the Chief, who was busy being a hypocrite. Then, as nobody expected, a huge explosion caught everybody's attention.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> Somebody from the headquarters called the chief, saying that the headquarters was blown up, with all the other policemen inside. He was about to tell who did it, but he was interrupted by a loud gunshot and his voice vanished. An unfamiliar voice took over and spoke.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"Greetings, Colonel Marquez!" a male voice said in a mock greeting. "The time has come for all of you evil ones to be punished!"</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">And his voice vanished in a crackle of static.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> In the blink of an eye, the chief's head suddenly blew up due to a well-placed shot to the head from a sniper. Everybody near him was splattered with blood and brain. The three remaining policemen (which included Gomez), went mad and ran in different directions, seeking for cover. But among the three, Gomez was driven mad the worst.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"WHO ARE YOU?!" he repeatedly asked out loud, and then he was knocked out unconscious.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> When he woke up, he found that he was in a glass chamber filled with an unfamiliar fluid and he was held in place by tubes which ran through his body. He could see a congregation of sunglass-wearing men standing before him and before the whole city. He then realized that he was on a stage, like a freak show. Beside him were the two rookie cops, and they were spared. However, he could hear what the leader of the sunglassed men was saying:</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"Your police force is but a nuisance to you and to all the country," he began in a matter-of-factly manner. "They were supposed to serve and protect, but instead, they punished and enslaved you. We come here today; The Brotherhood of the Just, to bring down the mighty hand of justice upon these evil hearts and to lead you, the people, to a peaceful new era. The just from the unjust were selected, and there they are, standing beside the epitome of evil in the force, which in a few moments, would be immortalized, so that nobody else would wreak havoc like these men once did."</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> Upon these words, a strange fluid was pumped to the tubes connected to Gomez's veins and he was poisoned from the inside. However, the leader of the Brotherhood explained that the fluid would preserve his body perfectly so as to serve as a concrete example to what the Brotherhood, the New Order, would do for the good of the people.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"> All of Gomez’s memories came flashing right before as his eyes as the liquid of death slowly took over his system. He was reminded of his sick and twisted deeds as his life’s clock slowly ticked away. How he wished he could’ve changed his ways before this. The weight of his sins tore him away from the light of heaven and toward the fiery chasms of Hades. Although it was too late for one, a realization came to him:</span><br />
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<em>“The good are rewarded the same and the evil are punished with the same amount of pain…”</em><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"And that, my beloved masses," the leader announced, "is the beginning of a new era of peace and justice."</span></span></div>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-53357699211634745292009-10-27T23:17:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:14:03.780-07:00The Distant Memory<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once I knew how to smile;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Troubles no nearer than a mile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'Tis heart once felt the light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And she was such a sight. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, she was once so real.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fate, with her arms, love she did steal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I am in the dark</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My only memory--a painful mark.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I lay six feet under ground</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still, she stalks me like a bloodhound.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But who is this woman--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Digs deep to my core of a man?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deep, deep inside my mind,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel her lurk from behind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A wisp from my psyche</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Was once mine, but has now broken free</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Haunt me not anymore</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, thou art not my paramour</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now an old surreal myth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once told from between yellow teeth.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-5391946149943325862009-10-17T13:25:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:14:26.237-07:00I Want to Feel Alive<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been wondering</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been listening</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am I still living?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this still breathing?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always felt weak</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My true self I seek</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hold my hand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to take my stand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been through so much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Felt lonely so much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trapped in my own cage</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been feeling so strange</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm calling you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make me new</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My faith's with you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to feel new</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to feel alive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to break free from myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to be me again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of this soulless mannequin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together let's pray</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And take me far away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make me feel loved again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take me back to heaven</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to leave myself behind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And rise with a new mind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take my hand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Help me stand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paint a smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay by me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never leave</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are my last hope</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to feel alive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to break free from myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to be me again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of this soulless mannequin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together let's pray</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And take me far away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take me far away where I'll never see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever atrocities I did to me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make me see the dawn of a new light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Join me in my brand new fight</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-46236557957439464882009-10-15T07:11:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:14:45.050-07:00Streak of Light<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello, shooting star</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A small streak of light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the gloomy night</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take me somewhere far</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hiya, tiny light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where are you going?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In here it's boring</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">C'mon, take my life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When will you be back</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've been out of luck</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wish you could take me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Far beyond the sea</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where no one can see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hey, you bright specter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why are you happy?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why are you so free?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Write me a letter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hola, estrella</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please take me with you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anywhere will do</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take me away now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wish you could</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give me back my smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give me back my life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tell me how to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be a better man</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be not who I am</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All hope has left me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Love has forsaken me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh please let me see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What life has for me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wish you could</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give me back my smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give me back my life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tell me how to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be a better man</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be not who I am</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Turn not a deaf ear to me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hear my weak but solemn plea</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take me away where I could live</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make me smile so I'll believe</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-8618419312161346082009-10-15T06:37:00.001-07:002009-10-15T06:37:12.425-07:00Streak of LightThe Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-91499908819280319632009-10-13T16:33:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:11:29.341-07:00Mortal Enemy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am plagued by myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My own reflection threatens me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My very existence crumbles inward</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Save me from my self-destruction drive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am a monster itching to come out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My soul is a timebomb; ticking my sanity away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My shadow smirks behind me; breathing words of hatred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Reach out your hand for me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am a prison of sorts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My heart crammed full of sorrows and pain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My mind filled with unanswered questions</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hand me the key; free me from myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am a fearsome weapon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My hands bring forth messages of pain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My thought causes lives to shatter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Disarm me; release me from my curse</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am a potent poison</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My blood smells like sulfur; it tastes like Death</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My fluids burn through life like acid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Neutralize me; I'm a threat to myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am my mortal enemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My own bitter deadly foe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My last hope is myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Leave me be; lest you be harmed as well</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-43478321959900171332009-09-29T05:46:00.000-07:002009-09-29T06:35:45.985-07:00Embrace the MadnessCome hither, my son!<br />All love has been gone<br />You now need to run--<br />Run to the dark sun!<br /><br />I've waited for you<br />From the oceans blue<br />To dark avenues<br />To have your eyes sewn!<br /><br />You are weary, boy<br /> To them you're a toy<br /> A part of their ploy<br /> And left you no joy<br /><br />How cruel were they--<br />Tools in a mad play.<br />Join not their weak fray<br />Pray hard, my boy. PRAY!<br /><br />Love was but a trick<br />Joys turned to be sick<br />Spent you like a wick<br />And broke your life's stick!<br /><br />A stone you must be<br />Heart that cannot feel<br />Frozen yet so free<br />Take them all numbly!<br /><br />Rise up, seek vengeance<br />Long was your penance<br />Wake up from your trance<br />With Death must they dance!<br /><br />Here is my needle<br />Prick their hard mettle<br />Prepare your saddle<br />Ride on to battle!<br /><br />Take my poisoned sword<br />Be cold like a fjord<br />Be harsh in your word<br />You are their true lord!<br /><br />Share my boiling hate!<br />Murder their bright fate!<br />Forget your dear mate,<br />She hath loved to hate!<br /><br />Burnt is your bright face<br />Here, take my black lace<br />Use my fat spiked mace<br />Proclaim your dead voice!The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-74913938057296858392009-09-16T04:35:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:15:17.110-07:00I Await Her<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forever I shall now sleep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In heaven I shall forever weep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By death we were separated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From our fears we were liberated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I will wait for her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even if it takes my remaining forever</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rest I will not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Far beyond after my flesh had rot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I shall find you in your solace</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And together we will burn in the holy furnace</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For I have spent my earth loving you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So shall I spend my eternity the same way too</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For you are the greatest mystery</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are my solemn love story</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No mortal words could convey</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nor ethereal words could say</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How much I love you, I love you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love you, I love you, I love you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have nothing more to lose</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For a long time ago, it was you I chose</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For I can never rest gently</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without feeling your love fully</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I promise thee I shall linger</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until my poor soul put a ring on your surreal finger.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-10714903368156483402009-09-10T23:34:00.001-07:002011-05-21T21:15:37.966-07:00To My Beautiful Illusion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She came to me one day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I wanted her to stay--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stay until my last day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was my illusion realized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My soul was energized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And all the beauty in the world I realized.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The fount of my happiness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The reservoir of my sadness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Destroyer of my madness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She is my beloved light;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My source of might</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And for her I would fight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For she was something too lovely</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If only; if only</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I could hold her softly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never would I let go</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For I love you so</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This you should know.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-89453624116658002402009-08-29T02:19:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:15:52.734-07:00The Second Apparition<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And she appeared before me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her breath swept me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She stood still for me to see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And held out her hand for me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How she seemed real</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her face I did feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My heart she really did steal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then she became unreal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She then drove a dagger deep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The blade in my heart did seep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And she put me into a cruel sleep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And she left me no space to weep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am a lost wanderer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was my heart's murderer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Too much was my love for her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I loved her a thousand times over</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Farewell to thee, surreal maiden</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To love I am now forbidden</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With grief I am stricken</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like glass, I am molten</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am now devoid of sadness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am now out of my madness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For now I embrace the darkness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And in my grave I savor happiness.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-5931956056234185672009-08-25T00:53:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:15:59.262-07:00Inside Me<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beating fast, beating hard</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Could it just be my heart?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Breathing in, breathing out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A life of its own?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pushing out, tearing apart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">IT IS ALIVE!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creeping from out of my chest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Darkness its real manifest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel it squirm so cruelly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amplify my agony</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clawing in from under my skin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I FEEL PAIN!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nobody hears my ordeal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nobody knows what I feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel a demon leaking from inside me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spilling blood for me to see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Agony, mutiny, blasphemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can't stop this horrid alchemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's claiming me from within</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's nothing I've ever seen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mutilate me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never would you accept me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Faster, faster</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You'll never kill me, bastard</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Scream, scream!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A DREAM!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Feel me, feel me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You would never feel how I slowly kill thee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wretched mortal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You were never an immortal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am now your master</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come to me, JUST A LITTLE BIT CLOSER!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nobody hears my ordeal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nobody knows what I feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel a demon leaking from inside me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spilling blood for me to see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Agony, mutiny, blasphemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can't stop this horrid alchemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's claiming me from within</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This battle I shall win!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now the time has come</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For us to feel numb</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Away foul creature</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Expel from my features!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Fool, you really are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Banish me, you are very far!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You will never win,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creature of malign!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And a light came shining</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Along with golden lightning</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the demon screamed and wailed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As he saw his mission failed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Never would you conquer me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For I have His power with me!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Return, I shall</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To destroy you and see you fall!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Return to whence you came from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the eternal fiery storm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And there you shall remain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Until your soul you have regained"</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-46646164704535509192009-07-10T06:46:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:16:12.134-07:00The Sad Clown<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He paints his face white and his lips red.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He tussles his hair as though dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He puts on pants so colorful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He makes his face so delightful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Did you ever ask what he really felt?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Do you ever wonder what is held within his belt?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Did you ever thank him for giving you a snicker or two?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Was he ever important to you?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Part the day, and he takes the facade away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He kneels, and to God he will pray</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Lord, help me!" he asked above.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Lord, I hunger for real love,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But he was unanswered and his smile slowly vanished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Everyday his paint diminished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Slowly the circus moved away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Leaving him alone and astray.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Everything was taken from him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As he watched the tent go dim,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He knelt down and prayed once more:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Lord, help me and my heart so sore,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A tear fell from his eye;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And from his heart came a heavy sigh--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Why did he not appreciate those little laughs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And those tiny twinkling eyes?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">For within those children, he felt a little love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And this he held in regret in his heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Until he passed away-- sad and alone.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-91552197077026094972009-06-24T05:18:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:16:25.985-07:00Do Not Forget Your Flowers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the sun did set for you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why now?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why now, on this beautiful summer day?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You left to play with the daisies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While we waited for you in vain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never did we notice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That you did not find daisies;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you found a fly-trap.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, you were shunned by the children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you smashed a bottle on their heads.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they laughed on us both.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We never noticed the sun;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nor did we the freckled moon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were just having some fucking fun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fun, some nonsense and anything.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you tell me you're dead already?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together, we were jesters and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all laughed at us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we laughed at them harder.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You taught me lessons I need not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I thank thee for that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You instructed me to be a fool,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe I'll thank you later for that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, Oh wise fool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight I leave you our last prank</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight I leave you white flowers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight I bid farewell to thee, great jest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight I shall see you no more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight you sleep soundly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight you won't forget your flowers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight you remain in our forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Farewell, my stupid friend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RIP Ronald Bercasio Labadlabad March 14, 1987-June 23, 2009</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-48228088832467360062009-06-15T23:04:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:12:08.558-07:00My Beautiful Illusion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You were just an illusion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A figment of my mad isolation</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Made to break concentration</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I taught myself to love you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're a mist--that I knew</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I didn't know what to do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And you came to me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Came to me softly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, how I loved thee!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yours was a visage of grace</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But let me touch thy face</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And my wit you shall erase.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But real, you are not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet you mean a lot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember you, I should not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alas, but I did love you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I knew I did and I still do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet I am cursed to forget you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Farewell, my dream maiden,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And you shall be forgotten.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nothing more but a dark raven.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-77330246188180687152009-06-06T06:01:00.001-07:002011-05-21T21:17:07.268-07:00The Lonely Immortal<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pity, pity on me;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Weak and pathetic creature I am.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Put my hand in the beast's mouth,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Only to drag the bloody mush back to me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Woe, o woe to me, I who have fallen before the Master.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I yearn for Him, yet shame tears me away.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shall redemption return to me still?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shame, shame on me;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am filled with shame.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For eons I roam this world,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And yet Death himself loathes me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have seen wars start and end.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have seen countless deaths.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet I have not seen my own salvation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Save me, oh save me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whoever you are listening to my piteous cries.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Heed my cries and listen to them well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Taste my eternal tears and you will know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This noose is killing me, set me free.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am immortal, yet I am dying everyday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Redemption, oh redemption, come to me quick.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-68136434795657497282009-05-19T07:57:00.000-07:002009-06-22T03:50:06.252-07:00JusticeThe cold night breeze swept past he city, leaving a shiver to every warm-blooded creature. There is nothing to expect from this stereotype of a city. Nothing new to see-- only dilapidated buildings, overflowing dumpsters, abandoned children and old people here and there, and the occasional dead petty criminal. Not the kind of environment you want for the kids.<br /><br />Police officer Gomez thought the same, so he didn't bother to raise a family. However, he'd occasionally and unwittingly make a child with a hooker he'd hire during his off-duty hours(sometimes even on duty), but he'd just ignore them. His life is good, he often thought. He wouldn't need to dish out money for meals, he'll just come inside an eatery and flash his pistol at the manager, and he'd get anything he wanted, except that young waitress who works during Thursday afternoons. How he wanted to taste young Thursday flesh on a dark alley, but he was scared of the burly father who works at the kitchen. He looks so big that it seems that a bullet won't mean a thing to him.<br /><br />Anyways, after meals he'd stroll out of the eatery and ride his motorcycle which he had christened as "Moses", because like Moses did with the Red Sea, the vehicles along the motorway would part and make way for him. Those who didn't would drown like the Egyptians, but not in water, but in ghost fees. His life was good, and so was his other friends at the force. Without them, the city would be in chaos and disorder.<br /><br />There were men far greater than Gomez in the force-- his deeds were merely child's play in comparison to the others. Some were involved in narcotics trade, some were employed as hired guns and some rape children. How Gomez wished he could be like them, but he hated to admit that he was too much of a pussy to commit their acts of greatness.<br /><br />On nights that he would be left alone, he'd look up and wonder whether he would be worthy to ascend there when the time comes. He had been such a dick, but he had no choice-- his body wants it, his soul craves for it. However, he is a good crimefighter-- he took so much delight in busting petty thieves and other little urchins unaffiliated with big criminal groups. He didn't meddle with the boys from the big ones, because he himself isn't with them. He didn't mess with them, neither did he help them.<br /><br />A few days ago, he noticed a few persons who seemed to have been following him. He'd feel their stare burning his back. From the city park to the red light district, he could feel them. He'd look for the faces, but they just melted into the crowd; so concealed; so insignificant. For a few moments, they'd be gone, but once in a while, he could feel he's being put under surveillance. He could feel them when he stopped to smoke. He could feel them as he entered the eatery for a free lunch. He could even feel them as he entered the brothel. <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">They're everywhere</span>, he thought.<br /><br />For days and days, that same feeling followed him. Wherever he went, whatever he did, he could feel a pair of eyes or a pair of ears trained on him. Slowly, he thought he was like a rabbit being stalked by silent yet deadly wolves. He shook that thought off. <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">I'm the wolf 'round these parts</span>, he thought to himself, and his anxieties would vanish.<br /><br />He kept that mentality, and he wasn't disturbed by the stalkers anymore. They were still there, but he just didn't mind them. As a matter of fact, the thought of having someone watch him made him even bolder-- the cigarette vendor whom he used to give a coin for a smoke would now see a gun and would lose a pack of cigarettes from her wares. Gomez even took a hooker and didn't bother to do the deed in the brothel, instead, he took his pleasure of the woman in a damp and dark alleyway. "You like that? WOO!" he'd ask out loud after he did these things, much to the confusion of his victim.<br /><br />One day, the stalkers thought they wanted to be noticed by Gomez, so they stepped up the act. Gomez was on his motorcycle and when the traffic light turned red, a dark sedan with tinted windows pulled to his right. He was strangely drawn to this vehicle, and when he turned to look, the driver lowered his window and looked at the cop through dark sunglasses. Gomez tried to approach the driver, but the light turned green and the sedan sped, leaving the gutsy cop dumbfounded. However, Gomez saw the plate number and made sure he remembered it. <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">No one looks at me like that</span>, he murmured.<br /><br />There was another day when he was walking on the city's crowded and sweaty streets, and he walked past a man wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sunglasses. He was not the sedan driver, but they had the same concealed stare. He felt the sedan driver's aura in this man. Gomez tried to get the guy, but he seemed to have vanished into the crowd. Everyday, he saw men wearing sunglasses looking at him and most of the time, they's pass by him. Everytime he tried to apprehend one of them, they'd simply vanish. It was strange and irritating for Gomez. Everyday he saw one of them, it slowly drove him mad.<br /><br />He saw them enough for one day that he had some beer and let the alcohol take over the thought of the sunglassed men in his mind. He went to his favorite eatery for dinner, drunk and stressed. To his surprise, the young and pretty waitress was there, even though it was not a Thursday afternoon. Due to drunken wanton, he grabbed the young lady and tried to kiss and touch her in the parts a father would be angry to see.<br /><br />The girl started to scream, and her huge father came bursting out of the kitchen with a knife, red with rage. The angry father's raging eyes and the policeman's drunken eyes met. Gomez shoved the girl and bared his fists to the huge man, issuing a challenge. The man dropped his knife and took a stance. Gomez rushed to the man with a fist, but the huge man was surprisingly fast and Gomez was drunk. Gomez swung and missed, but the man hit with strong and fast blows. Gomez thought he had the man with a straight, but the angry father parried the strike and hit Gomez with a straight of his own to the face, which sent Gomez to the floor. As Gomez hit the floor, all the alcohol left his system and he was now able to think clearly. The man stooped to Gomez and grabbed his collar and was about to hit him again, but the policeman was able to draw his pistol and shot the burly man in the chest.<br /><br />From the corner of his eye, he saw three sunglass-wearing men observing him. When he turned around, he saw that the street had a lot of sunglassed men scattered throughout the crowd. By this, he was driven mad and pursued the two nearest him, leaving the father dying and the daughter crying for help while cursing Gomez at the top of her lungs.<br /><br />The sunglassed men fled as they realized they were being chased by Gomez. Gomez, in his fleeting frustration, ran after the two fleeing strangers, determined to get them this time. It all seemed to be part of some elaborate plan. Even Gomez felt that, but he just let it unfold before him. The two men hastily entered an old apartment building. Gomez charged inside the doors and he saw the two men flying up the stairs.<br /><br />As Gomez reached the second floor landing, he found out that he had lost track of the two strangers. Just as he was about to go berserk out of frustration, he heard a door close, revealing where his targets are. He raced up the corridor, towards the door.<br /><br />He kicked the door open, and he saw the two men lying on the floor with their eyes wide open (sunglasses removed, of course) and their mouths foaming. They've poisoned themselves, as if they've served their purpose already. On a corner of the room, Gomez saw something which confirmed his conspiracy theory-- there were pictures of the whole police force pinned up on the wall. On a nearby table, there were thick folders each labeled with names of the police officers, including him.<br /><br />He read all the folders carefully, and for every first page except the one labeled for him, it was stamped with the word "execution". He looked for details on how the "execution" would be carried out, but there are none, just the extensive profiles of the policemen. In his sober days, Gomez thought that this was coming-- judgment to all their evils. He knew that they deserved it, but why not him also? Was he not evil enough?<br /><br />He read the folder for their chief, Colonel Marco Marquez, and he saw the date for the intended execution, and to his surprise, it was that day. He quickly made his way back to the headquarters to look for the chief and warn him of his impending doom. Like a madman, he hastily made his way to the headquarters on foot.<br /><br />He passed by the eatery, where moments ago, he had just murdered an innocent man. However, the eatery is now crowded with people, along with a medical team and their ambulance, and a newsteam with a reporter interviewing Chief Marquez-- just the person Gomez was looking for.<br /><br />"We shall not tolerate the misbehaviors of our men in the force and we shall give them the appropriate punishment," he heard the chief say to the reporter.<br /><br />"Chief! You are in danger!" Gomez called to his superior, drawing all the attention to him.<br /><br />"There! This demon must be put to the hand of justice at once!" the chief then ordered two of the rookies in the force (who knew nothing of the misdeeds of their seniors), to seize Gomez.<br /><br />The chief saw to it that Gomez would be seen before the camera and the chief preached about what loyalty and integrity is, as opposed to what Gomez had done. Gomez, on the other hand, continued to voice his warnings, but was unnoticed by the chief, who was busy being a hypocrite. Then, as nobody expected, a huge explosion caught everybody's attention.<br /><br />Somebody from the headquarters called the chief, saying that the headquarters was blown up, with all the other policemen inside. He was about to tell who did it, but he was interrupted by a loud gunshot and his voice vanished. An unfamiliar voice took over and spoke.<br /><br />"Greetings, Colonel Marquez!" said the voice in a mock greeting. "The time has come for all of you evil ones to be punished!"<br /><br />And his voice vanished in a crackle of static.<br /><br />In the blink of an eye, the chief's head suddenly blew up due to a well-placed shot to the head from a concealed sniper. Everybody near him was splattered with blood and brain. The three remaining policemen (which included Gomez), went mad and ran in different directions, seeking for cover. But among the three, Gomez was driven mad the worst.<br /><br />"WHO ARE YOU?!" he repeatedly asked out loud, then he was knocked out unconscious.<br /><br />When he woke up, he found that he was in a glass chamber filled with unfamiliar fluid and he was held in place by tubes which ran through his body. He could see a congregation of sunglass-wearing men standing before him and before the whole city. He then realized that he was on a stage, like a freakshow. Beside him were the two rookie cops, and they were spared. However, he could hear what the leader of the sunglassed men was saying:<br /><br />"Your police force are but a nuisance to you and to all the country," he began in a matter-of-factly manner. "They were supposed to serve and protect, but instead, they punished and enslaved you. We come here today, The Brotherhood of the Just, to bring down the mighty hand of justice upon these evil hearts and lead you, the people, to a peaceful new era. The just from the unjust were selected, and there they are, standing beside the epitome of evil in the force, which in a few moments, would be immortalized, so that nobody else would wreak havoc like these men once did."<br /><br />Upon these words, a strange fluid was pumped to the tubes connected to Gomez's veins and he was poisoned from the inside. However, the leader of the Brotherhood explained that the fluid would preserve his body perfectly so as to serve as a concrete example to what the Brotherhood, the New Order, would do for the good of the people.<br /><br />"And that, my beloved masses," the leader announced, "is the beginning of a new era of peace and justice."The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-84302299996269886322009-05-13T06:56:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:17:22.816-07:00A Frenzy of Blood<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I am finally awakened.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To the world I say hello, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But to the mighty sun I am frightened.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I rise to meet my body's demand.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the darkness I wait for thy neck,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To taste of your blood drives me mad!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And so there you come a-strolling,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oblivious to the malign in the air.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So do I inch closer to you, beautiful thing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And like the fluid air I wriggle to you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet you do not feel my evil.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Proceed to your neck I should and must do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And to me you turn your head,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was halted in my tracks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your beauteous scream as rich as your blood so red.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For an eternity of sleep, never have I felt this--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This palpitation against the sternum.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, pretty thing, you put me in unease!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You tell me to let you go,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But no, I shall not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet I would not drink from you, oh no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please, look me not with those crystal eyes!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">THEY DRIVE ME AWRY!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My attraction to you dwarfs my size.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I won't let this build up inside of me;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, as much as I hated to do,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your neck I shall bite, and doom you shall see.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pray hard, pray always,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That I may not see another you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You, who hindered my evil ways.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701334204259671804.post-52383980698103852312009-05-08T06:44:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:17:32.942-07:00Revelations<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a jest I have been,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believed I was the master of my universe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet I was but a prey of my own fool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day by day I turned</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A blind eye towards which I don't know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But again,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A patchwork of an idiot I am</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, as these cryptic message are laid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decipher a word-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"FOOL".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The great tomb was fine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until Carter opened it in 1922.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fool was he to dig inside</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The remains of a past long gone,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For it brought him a curse</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He'd never forget.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Betrayal is an ugly monster</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That seeks to devour</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every beautiful thing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I beg thee, Master of the Skies;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Command thine gray clouds hanging above me;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cruel fate, set me free.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am paralyzed by the force</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of knowing. Be it a beauty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or an abomination, Pray tell,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What should have been done</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the days of the kings.</span>The Stage Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113831615473590129noreply@blogger.com0