Future Photos

by: Ronel L. Alijado

Tomorrow is Bible

Understanding life’s meanings

Accepting mysteries

Tomorrow is a map

Exploring depths, heights, and distances

Finding and growing

Tomorrow is a fruit

Appreciating bitterness

Tasting sweetness

Tomorrow is Cupid

Loving

Uniting

Tomorrow is a song

Singing and dancing

Laughing

Tomorrow is a chapel

Silencing heart, mind, and soul

Praying

Tomorrow is heaven

Surviving and winning

Saving

This tomorrow will come

Future photos

Not Taking It Off

By: Ronel L. Alijado

He goes to a mall

To see its display

 Black and white clothes

He looks at them

But does not touch and hold

Their colors, designs, sizes, and scents

Not attractive nor ugly, not excessive nor dull

Not too big nor too small, not sweet nor foul

He does not buy

He has only one garment

It has all what he had looked for

It hates to shop

For what?

Is this what true love does?

He answers

“I am not taking it off”

      What a shirt!

Not taking it off 

Life, a Fiesta

by: Ronel L. Alijado

What if you have only one day to live?

I suggest:

Go to a forest.

Sing with birds.

Talk with the animals.

Climb the trees and eat their fruits.

Smell the flowers and touch their petals.

Go to a sea.

Swim.

Look at the fish at the plants and at the corals.

Sail.

Let the winds bring you to an island.

There, you eat, drink, and dance.

Before you leave, go home.

Hug and kiss your family and friends.

Do these.

When the time is near, gaze at the sky.

Do it even how hard it is.

You inhale.

Then make your last exhalation and day.

The end defines life.

Living is feasting.

It should be.

Variation and Constancy

by: Ronel L. Alijado

The sun rises and hides

The moon shines and disappears

The clouds come and leave

The wind blows and stays quiet

The leaves are green and then, brown

The flowers bloom and wither

The animals jump and sleep

The sea waves become high and low

The people smile and frown

Everything and everyone changes

But God’s love will always be the same

Giving peace to all

Partying Anyway

by: Ronel L. Alijado

What a night party of emotions!

The heaven pours heavily

Both for gladness and for sadness

The thunder explodes

At the fearless and at the fearful

The lightning flashes

On the hopeful and on the hopeless

The wind blows

On the unweary and on the weary

The night tells two stories

Which is your story?

Laughing or crying?

Embracing or escaping?

Dreaming or surrendering

Beginning or ending?

Choosing or complaining?

“If only I have a choice”

The party does not stop

You continue it

It is continued or both

Alive, you are still at the party.

Partying anyway. 

Wake for Life

by: Ronel L. Alijado

A man stays awake in nights.

His world has no days.

He struggles in darkness.

He battles without a light but with a rock.

How will he know it is danger?

He cannot understand and see.

He is in wake

Waiting death will turn into life

The sun, the moon, and the stars will appear

Casting off evenings and welcoming mornings

For now, he is not going to bed.

Sleeping is retreating.

He is fighting! 

Hi or Goodbye

by: Ronel L. Alijado

A deer knows roars of a lion

Pit and home

A bird is rain’s pal

Thunders and lightnings are grains and fruits

A man grieves for a forest’s conflict

Verdicts and endings

A heart links to a brain

Feelings not enough

Thoughts included

Einstein and Socrates combined

Curve or straight lines

Yet many deer, birds, men and hearts

Taking world’s exit at daybreak

Only few not bid goodbye

And greet hi till midnight