Light (Para Kay Ilaw - English)

23 September 2008

Remember when I told you about my love for the night? Those about the romance hidden in the streets while we were standing on the sidewalk watching the lights of fleeting jeepneys fly by us, you didn’t believe of love in the darkness. I was high with the cold wind, the lights of the lampposts embracing the night, and with you, your presence. I still couldn’t believe I was with you walking towards a better place to hail a ride. You were busy with telling me about your classmate that pissed you off all week, I was busy with thanking the moon for the most beautiful gift on the day of my birth.

Light, it is to you I want to be true. Like you I refused to believe in the stupidity invented to sell roses and chocolates, but now I relearned how to believe. I was fooled to believe because I allowed myself to be a fool to make it easier for myself and my soul to feel such small bits of happiness, like your presence. Its true, I believed before that it was fool’s talk, now I know that there really is something different about somebody’s presence that could be a source of joy. I hope that if this isn’t real for you yet then you’ll let me make it real for us.

Under the trees that give rebirth to infant raindrops, dancing with the leaves, while all the stars in the sky blink above us, until the moon finishes its humble journey, until we finally get a ride, until you have bought the pencil eraser you needed, this smile will remain in my face.

Walk with me, Light, let me hold your hand, I will never let you go.