Poem: Pasahero/Passenger

Pasahero

Namumutlang damdamin
Katawang tuyong tuyo
Mamaya ay iisipin
Ang ngayo’y hindi buo

Orasang walang kamay
Kapalaran hinayaan
Sasakyang walang sakay
Ang sarili babayaran

Tagaktak na itong pawis
“Walang bawas, walang labis”
Ang kamay makasarili
Pawang nawalang langis

Ang hinaharap ngayon
Talikod na panahon
Bababa nalang sa kanto
Ang dereyalisasyon

Passenger

Feeling weak and tired
The body, wrung and dry
Thinking by and by
The now has gone awry

The clock without a hand
His fate is left to be
A ride without a man
Itself, the only fee

The sweat now soaking
“Nothing more, nothing less”
The hand so selfish
Like oil so gone and spent

What he faces now
The times which turned away
From where he gets down
A day’s another day