CROSSINGS
Isang tula para sa aking pumanaw na lola, inilagay ko rito bilang paggunita sa ikatlong anibersaryo ng kanyang paglisan.
Nanay, you were never good
at keeping promises.
i remember it clearly,
that day when i was three
back in nursery:
at 11 am, you took me to school,
and said you would go home first
then return later.
of course i shook my head in
disapproval
fearing you’d never come back for me.
imprisoned in my tight embrace
your shirt wet with my tears,
you agreed to wait for dismissal
so we can go home-- together.
of course i knew otherwise;
a few minutes passed, i looked out
the window
and saw your absence.
you have just crossed the street,
and I ran after you
vision blurred with tears
never giving a thought about the hazards.
though you and mrs. masangkay got mad at me,
i didn’t care.
at least i was able to bring you back.
sixteen years later Nanay, you’re still
never good at keeping promises.
you said you’d wait for the day
i graduate,
see me off to work
everyday,
then we’ll go out on a date
on my first salary day.
but Nanay, you are about to make
that one final Crossing,
and i, your beloved apo, no matter
how i’ve grown,
have no power
to bring you
back. (03182002)
Nanay, you were never good
at keeping promises.
i remember it clearly,
that day when i was three
back in nursery:
at 11 am, you took me to school,
and said you would go home first
then return later.
of course i shook my head in
disapproval
fearing you’d never come back for me.
imprisoned in my tight embrace
your shirt wet with my tears,
you agreed to wait for dismissal
so we can go home-- together.
of course i knew otherwise;
a few minutes passed, i looked out
the window
and saw your absence.
you have just crossed the street,
and I ran after you
vision blurred with tears
never giving a thought about the hazards.
though you and mrs. masangkay got mad at me,
i didn’t care.
at least i was able to bring you back.
sixteen years later Nanay, you’re still
never good at keeping promises.
you said you’d wait for the day
i graduate,
see me off to work
everyday,
then we’ll go out on a date
on my first salary day.
but Nanay, you are about to make
that one final Crossing,
and i, your beloved apo, no matter
how i’ve grown,
have no power
to bring you
back. (03182002)
posted by The Game at 9:54 AM
3 Comments:
oh yeah i remember this one--from three years ago?
by the way, paolo manalo's lecture for the UP talk tomorrow might REALLY interest you:
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Paolo Manalo will be reading his paper entitled "Ultimatizing" Marvel: Contemporary American Comic Book Super-Heroes and the Wake of 9/11.
The paper discusses the role of the American comic book super-hero in articulating the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Center. Though comic books are considered an escapist medium, he argues that since the Marvel Comics office is located in the same city as the September 11 attacks, and the Marvel comic book universe is built on heroes who exist in a comic book simulation of New York, Marvel cannot let this event called 9/11 pass without articulating it in the language of the graphic super-hero narrative.
His lecture will be tomorrow, August 25, Thursday, 2:30 to 4PM at the UP FC Conference
made me miss nanay again...
astig. nasaan na yung jelson na nanalo sa ustetika?
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