lately, he has been talking about separations <br />how painful the process can be at the start <br />just like a wound with a pus <br />but somehow when that infected thing <br />bursts and the cause is removed <br />the relief that is felt justifies all the <br />fears and anxieties <br /> <br />she likes it too <br />the way she dismembers a wing from the <br />body of a bee <br />how its sting has to be extricated so that <br />it cannot penetrate another flesh <br />and cause inflammation <br /> <br />he too remembers how he once disassembled <br />the toy robot that Papa once bought him during <br />his 5th birthday <br />when Mama went away packing all her things <br />and took the bus to ozamis <br /> <br />things repeat themselves and they all know that <br />and some people despite this knowledge allow these things to happen <br /> <br />not because it is painful but because it finds at the end <br />the reliefs they are seeking.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/memory-lane-tabon/
