People may need. Two different things:
A warm blanket on a winter night.
A cold water on a summer day.
That was easy.
But the book says otherwise
that people need three,
actually. A companion.
And this, I can’t hardly achieve
without a sacrifice.
Lukewarm
in a room I shared with another.
Living thing. My search for warmth
is in its dying. My search for coldness
is also in its dying.
So I wake up
each early morning turning off
this machine-sucking
life of the other. In the comfort
of my own breathing.
Hoping that the easiness
will boil down
into two different things:
People may need.
While warming winter.
And cooling summer.
Without you.
this is so true.
Welcome back, stranger!
It’s been awhile since I read a piece from you. This poem is such a wonderful come back.
I particularly like the contrasts that succeed to draw the sentiments in words, descriptive of the ambivalence of the feeling expressed, revealing the truth in the end.
Oftentimes, the things we need even in their trivialities just conceal the deeper wanting within for the things and the love that in truth we really need.
Looking forward to read more from you in the coming days.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
postscript: I’m excited for my home-coming as I count the days before my flight to the Philippines, February 9. It’s going to be a nice long vacation until April 2.
hi john,
thanks for dropping a comment. it’s good to be back.
cheers,
marvin
hi jeques,
thanks for welcoming back. it is so exciting to embark to another year of my poetry writing life. my two month hiatus is about my homecoming too, in the Philippines. nothing beats spending time with family during Christmas time. i had a wonderful time and i bring with me a lot of memories.
have a blessed vacation, jeques. hope you enjoy your summer, with all your “traveller’s soliloquy”. t’was a perfect time to complete your poetry collection. i have read all your recent poems, sorry for not dropping a comment.
but i’ll do so, i’ll catch up with that.
best of times,
marvin