To Have Those Eyes

Let me have your eyes,

to see the unseen

world beyond my norm.

Let me have your eyes

touch ripples of realities

beyond the limits of these senses

Let me have those eyes,

shards blizzards of hope

tearing the shallowness of my depth

the sickening myopia of my sight

Your eyes naïve of my world.

Those eyes - sears me wisdom

of how blind I could be.

** painting "Blind Love" by Cris Steinken

In my humanity...

Agda sa Panihapon

Gipangita man taka
    maskin katong di pa ta magkaila
Gipangita nako tong
    katong nakaila kanako
    katong nakapangita nuon ko
    kay naa'y nangita kanako.
Daghan man ko'g nailhan
    apan ambot
    dili lang gyud to sila akong gipangita
Ug nakit-an taka
   karon
   kuyog sa mga nakakita
   ug Imo sab ubang gipangita,
   duyog sa mga wala damhang gipakita

Karong ulahing panag-uban.

Kaning kagabhiong hapsay ang pag-abi-abi

Duyog sa kalinaw

   sa pagtapok-tapok

   sa kainit sa panaghiglaay

   ug pamahulay

Sa kahilom sa kagabhiong
   klaro Kanimo ang umaabot nga kagubot.
Ang kahayag karong gabhi-una
    mao ang paghinumdum
    niining mga kinabuhing Imo nang pagabiyaan
Sa kaguol ug kaisog
Gidawat Nimo ang tanan.

Nakit-an taka.
Nasabtan nako akong pagpangita.
Niining gabhiuna.

Sa Imong lawas
   sa pagpangandoy nga mabulahan nga maka-uban ka.
   pruweba sa pagpakatao ug paghigugma.
Sa Imong dugo
   putli ug gigahin lang kanamo,
   tuburan ug hinungdan niining kinabuhi.

Karong gabhiuna.

Salamat sa pagpangagda
Mangaon kita!

Resolute Gratitude

I look at you and smile.

You prick me.
Staunching.
Laughing.

Your stalwart resolute

To dig deep.

To that place
where I found
a soothing remedy

This heart that searched for you.

I look at You smiling.

Content of being with You.

I wonder where.

    Where have You been?

Where you will meet me?

Again.

When things got 
difficult. 
confusing.

at the mercy of waiting.

of saddened pace.
and blinding space.
of confusion.

I still find myself waiting.
 for You.

You.
who always found me.

Thank You

:D

I - too fragile

To let you go,
   for I - too fragile.
To hold you tight is to break me.
To watch you intently
   is to further take you
   away from my sight.
To face you is to hide
   behind my put-on smile.
To reach you, to talk to you.
I - too fragile.
To take a hold of you
   takes a need to let you go.

I once saw you smile,
    sweet and placid.
From a radical soul whose soul
    reaches the lost and the lowly,
    I thought:
Was I not lucky?
Oh, to see that smile!

The Return of the Prodigal Son

While having our Action Group with the Sisters' Staffers, our facilitator, Miming, read to us a prolific reflection on the painting of Rembrandt on "The Return of the Prodigal Son." I could personally feel the soul of each character as they were individually described.When asked whom we could relate much among the characters, I could not help but remember a prayer I uttered to God:

For all things that I am. 

For all things I am not and cannot be.

For who I am and who am not.

For all things I can do,

cannot do, have not done...

For how little I have to offer,

is already the most genuine of what I could give.

Receive O Lord, 

how little this love may be.

I have nothing more.

All else, is by Your grace!

Amen.

**The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt

Ikaw Manong,

Ang tingin mong parang

   sa narurupok na kahoy.

Inaanay.

Para bagang nabasang kahoy

   na walang buhay.

Unti-unting kinakain ng sarili

   nitong nabubulok na kamatayan.

O, Ikaw manong

   na di man lamang makatitig.

Ni walang lakas ang mga mata mong

   hamunin akong matignan ka.

Ang matignan ka.

Ikaw. At ang naging ikaw.

Ang kung sino ka dati.

Manong, ikaw -

   na hindi man lamang magawang matignan

   kung sino ka.

Manong, ikaw -

   ang nawawala mong lakas

   upang itaas pa ang iyong paningin.

   - sa pangarap

   - sa hinaharap…

Nakikita kita

**painting "Dugos Man" credits to Mr.Errol Balcos