“Hindi na Kita Kilala”
Do you think I can have one more kiss? I’ll find closure on your lips, and then I’ll go. Maybe also one more breakfast. One more lunch, and one more dinner. I’ll be full, and happy. And we can part.
But in between meals, maybe we can lie in bed one more time. One more prolonged moment where time suspends indefinitely as I rest my head on your chest. My hope is that if we add up the ‘one mores,’ they will equal a lifetime. And I’ll never have to get to the part where I let you go.
But that’s not real, is it?
There are no more ‘one mores.’ I met you when everything was new and exciting, and the possibilities of the world seemed endless. And they still are. For you, for me. But not for us.
Somewhere between then and now, here and there, I guess we didn’t just grow apart. We grew up.
When something breaks, if the pieces are large enough, you can fix it. Unfortunately, sometimes, things don’t break. They shatter. But when you let the light in, shattered glass will glitter.
And in those moments, when the pieces of what we were catch the sun, I’ll remember just how beautiful it was. Just how beautiful it’ll always be. Because it was us.
And we were magic.
Someone Great (2019)
“Stockholm”
Pit.
Pat,
Patter go
Your emotions.
Pit. Pat.
Just raindrops
Dropping here.
And there.
Pit-pat.
Pitter-patter
On the roof.
Slowly getting more
And more often, and
Quicker in between, and
Building up in volume as it
Swells into a crescendo, and
Your throat has a painful lump in it
That formed out of the blue as the
Deluge now pours over in torrents that are
Quickly filling the basins of your eyes that
Your eyelids like dams about to burst are straining
To keep your feelings hidden in the depths yet
With a sharp gasp of cold air and a flash of light
And a deafening crack that splinters the sky
And a gut-churning boom
The dam
Gives way
To a flood.
And the rain, now embarrassed,
Realizing what it's done,
Starts to quiet in
Decrescendo,
Realizing,
Pitter-patter,
What it's done.
Pit-pat go
your emotions.
Pit.
Pat.
In drinking
A bottle of dandelion wine,
Memories of a summer distilled
Burn the throat
And warm the heart.
And in its magic,
All portent of
Tomorrow’s winter
And bitter vomit
And nauseous vertigo
And salty cheeks
And bloodshot eyes
Are all but forgotten.
Joni Mitchell
reviving this meme because the occasion called for it
"And you don't miss a thing 'Til you're crying when you're driving away in the dark."
“Was I spoilt for love? Have you had enough?”
https://soundcloud.com/dino-santos/say-my-name-radio-edit
https://soundcloud.com/dino-santos/tadhana-intense-momolan-at-3am-remixxx
https://soundcloud.com/dino-santos/chant
"Nude no.1" Index finger on capacitive touch screen Santos, 2016
https://soundcloud.com/dino-santos/as-lovers-go
Who Were Awake?
For a brief moment, The dawning sky And its wispy threads of clouds Served as the gently waking sun's canvas, Painted in a deeply iridescent hue That bathed the entire city In a magically pink glow That provided A glimpse Of what heaven might be like. Yet who were awake With open eyes seeing Or with open hearts feeling To witness the sun, Whom everyone knows to be The harsh and oppressive tyrant Of high noon In his unguarded moment When he loved the Earth so tenderly That he caused her To blush?