the krag-and-bayonet Phase (a love song)

Music: Reveal the remedy – Urbandub

By Ricardo De Ungria

The landscape is just not big enough
for both of us, I see.
You go that way, I go mine.
With separate maps, we shall not
pay out thread behind us.
We’ll arrive at the same places,
perhaps use the same paths and turnings,
separately, lured by the same
primordial, amplitudes and silences we love.
Pinnacles, bedrock, harbor heads,
cliff dwellings, tumbleweed hinterlands,
waterfalls, canyons and forests
will wound us with the grit
and hesitancies of impermanence.
At the end of the road
when we come accross each other
again, we’ll have stories to inflict
on the other without delay.
We shall drink to each other’s absence.
We shall leave no stone unturned,
spare no mementos and take no compliments.
We shall leave the feeling between us
a howling wilderness.
We’ll be at a loss for words, love,
but we shall have peace.

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galing sa librong Decimal Places (2004) ni Ricardo De Ungria.

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 Music: Frailty – Urbandub

(reveal the remedy)g.alipe(this separation is killing me)(you say I should’ve thought that)(before I did what I have done) (so easier to put the blame on you)(I should’ve looked inside of me)(But it’s all in vain as I try to explain)(She pulls away)(we could’ve been more)(can we ever have these feelings again?)(we should’ve been more)(maybe in time we’ll realize that maybe)(fate reveals the remedies)(making it feel like it will be like the first time)(still the vision on my mind)(cuz now I realize it’s)(so damn hard to give you up)(no way out of this hole)(can we ever have us back again?)(let’s not start and put the blame part away)(can you honestly say)(you can see me with another one)(another one, another chance with you)(i want more, I want more, I want more)(regretting it now)(can fate reveal to me)(the questions to why)(reveal the remedy)(could’ve been more)(should’ve been more)(maybe in time we’ll realize that maybe)(that fate reveals the remedies)(making it feel like it will be like the first time)(just like the first time)

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Chest bullet no. 1: stars

How uncanny stars are. It is true that stars gleam not as beacons; rather they stain the beauty of the night. They are lifeless, dull and flat. Whatever or whoever that holds them there sometimes throw them down to us mortals. Others gaze at its luminescence and appreciate it in a split-second.

I’d rather have them framed in the sky

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