two kids were to stay back and study at school when they heard of a kidnapping in school. the first boy hurriedly left school to not be a victim. but the other waited until the kid woke up and they both left. the next day, a teacher comes into his literature class to announce that […]

whatever came with the night refused to rise with the rooster or the rooster lost his voice and only mourning came with questions without answers whose am I? did I smile? did I cry? did you miss me? who are you even, father? present while absent did the ants forget to feed on your carcass? […]

as far as falling in love goes before the fangs of mistrust appear because they will and distrust becomes a gut because it will one flower chooses its roots another sifts its scion there is silence, the loud type trust doesn’t know how to question but to answer for love it must. leonell echa

I have not been able to get enough of The chorus of the Hebrew slave, The marriage of Figaro, Handel’s Messiah, Sorrowful stone Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Mozart, Dvorak, Brahms, Beethoven, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Piano concerto– a list long enough to last a million lifetimes. Classical music is the only prove I need for the existence of […]

For two months since you left my olfactory receptors get delirious every time the fragrance of your cologne reach out to them from the bedsheet where you slept. I have washed it twice, but somehow your scent got stuck like the red wine lipstick stain on my shirt that same night two weeks ago. Some […]

for love that we resist fear of tomorrow’s mystery for not wanting to leave fear of others’ opinions we die while breathing when greed interferes in our daily affairs actions and words are not fights for what is just but because it is not yet our turn for not learning to forgive the wrong one […]

Thrice in one statement, I use the word verdict I love that it is a terminal A stop sign for having to condone excesses For controlling deficiencies Between my spiraled wooden table And coffee whirling from a stir Is a collection of surreal poems And a book titled “About” With contents of varying themes Like […]

There is– like a wish that dreams to be, to become, to breathe– a dandelion that seeks to bloom in the hazy, cold sunrise of Jos. Blossom, bloom, develop, unfold in ways yet unseen by human eyes, in conditions that have murdered in cold blood souls that will have become witnesses to survival. Learn to […]

I remember pouring down tears at night But they reached the ground as fresh dews by morning I feel that that only time I truly appreciated light Was when I stood in front and darkness was behind I feel those times when we think we’re down Are the bounces that lift us higher than we […]

Plights are like puzzles Some you can fix, while others like fractions they mix Know when the plight is playing a trick. Unscramble if you can if it doesn’t revive, make a new plan If any must remain alive, it’s you Because you’re the human. it takes time to heal, To swallow the pill and […]