P[e]NORAMA

Summer reigns
In your lips,
But I see flickers
Of autumn
In your eyes.

The lid
Of your anguish
Is tightly clasped,
But the tempest
That dwells inside
Bares the parody
Of your smile.

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Love is that which continues to shine even when everything has turned gray; the only thing on earth that is capable of upholding the right, and righting the wrong. It is the home that closes its door to envy, deception and betrayal; the arm that embraces truth, and the heart that pumps out compassion.

It is the mist that kisses away human troubles and pains, the rainbow that inspires redemption. Calm like the sunset, it is lovelier than Venus, and more powerful than Zeus. It is like the clouds we see across the summer sky — light, because it carries no grudge.

[First posted at LoveWillBringUsTogether’s Love Is…?, a discussion about the kind of love that “exists independently of our own self and can enter into us but is much, much more than we can contain entirely” as LWBUT puts it.]

//Sherma E. Benosa

21 May 2008; 1:17am

She floats like an eagle

And whispers like the breeze.

She soars high like hope;

She’s calm like peace.

She’s a storm when she rages;

A nightingale when she sings.

She is sadness when she wails

And bliss when she beams.

She is a small step that leaps;

The blood that travels in the veins.

She is a cool wind that revives;

A fire that warms and lightens.

She minds not the frail body,

She roams beyond the horizon’s end;

She dives into the depths of the oceans

And breathes out of the pools within.

Dainty like the clouds in summer

She is a flower, wild and carefree;

She is a raindrop in spring

Her beauty’s not for the eyes to see.

She is a touch that heals,

And a love that pulsates.

She is a melody that beats;

A poetry that resonates.

Inspired by a great post. Read it here.

//Sherma E. Benosa

12 April 2008; 3:02pm

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It’s summer; the sun’s smiling brightly

But autumn reigns inside me.

I feel like a tree who just lost a leaf

Because you left; now inside my heart

Is a terrible heartache.

Help me feel I am no tree

And you are not a leaf;

Instead, you are a river, and I am a creek.

Though we are from different worlds,

We came to travel side by side;

But the time has come that we must sail apart.

I flow on by, as I know you would.

Have faith, let us both believe

That we will intertwine somewhere, someday again.

And when we each reach destiny’s ocean

Trust that I will have a smile for you, my friend.

Until then.

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[Photo Caption: Taken at Corregidor Island, Philippines.]  

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For my good friends, Chie, Jing, and Tayns who have left this summer: Jing to join her husband in Canada; Tayns to pursue her MA in Japan, and Chie to seek a greener pasture in Qatar. Good luck to all of you. I am deeply saddened that we must live far from each other, but you are always in my heart. Don’t forget I am just a click away. I love you. 

Written at the Relaksasi Spa @ Park Square I while waiting for my turn. The music is calming, and the scent is soothing to the soul.