YOUR SMILE

for my sister, Lillian Marie J. Vistal

I look for you everywhere
even in unfamiliar places
I make sure I smile so that
when I get the chance to see your face
you would smile back at me.

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Feb. 20, 2016 at 11:37 p.m.
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MY SUNRISE AND YOUR BENCH

Today,
I wait for the sunrise
on the bench on the side
the exact place we once occupied.

It was half-past five then
when we started our walk, my friend
down the nostalgic K of C Promenade
while joggers busily parade.

The sea was glistening and calm
of laughter, arguments and stories
Me, staring at my sunrise
You, sitting on your bench.

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Feb. 21, 2016 at 9:11 a.m.
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MISSING YOU AT 21

Our summers with Papa Tito were spent swimming here.

Twenty-one years
it has been
and I still cry
I still ask why

Not that I never
understood your leaving
But, it took me years
to grasp your passing

The pain is still here
it never left
it still feels
like yesterday.

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March 23, 2016 at 10:38 p.m.
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I wrote this for my father, Tito P. Vistal, and for every loved one who passed away. 

BLUE

ALMIRA Diving Resort, Napaling Point, Tangnan, Panglao, Bohol

alone in his paddle boat
a fisherman passes by

wondering what time
he can bring home
a kilo of fish
for his family of six.

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4/3/2016 at 10:33 a.m.
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