Of Benches Facing A Wall

They were always something to see, those benches. Weird, perhaps, for it was amazing how something so simple and normal could be so beautiful at the same time. And yet there they were, grainy and polished all the same, tucked squarely against a wall leading to a staircase, a sight utterly ignored and completely neglected [...]

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Freesia

Picture courtesy of louisa_catlover
 
It is with you,
Ever patient,
Faithful and enduring,
Waiting springs to come to bloom;
 
And I,
Impatient,
Insistent and
In love as I am
Budging against uncertainties
Cutting loose.
 
Or at least,
We used to.
 
For what we are, I guess,
Is the product of a choice,
Of time,
Of fate,
And of compromise.
 
For what ever, indeed,
In the world could make
An angel
In the humble semblance of a [...]

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Reality Check

Hello there. I’m Dexter. Twenty. You know, the unidentified flying object floating around in your maths class? Right! I’m the one whose face grimaces like there’s always something foul-smelling under my nose. Remember me? Hey! It’s very nice to meet you, yeah?
So how’s it going? I just thought it’d be cool to get to know [...]

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The Faith Factor

A couple of months back, when mom was still pretty conscious of filling the whole unit with an eighty decibel audio from whatever it was that she was watching at that particular moment, I heard Kris Aquino over the tube. It was on one of those considerably less stressful Sunday afternoons, me headset-free and what-not, [...]

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The Faintest Chances

This, on a day when everything seemed to crumble right beneath his feet. Sure, it felt – and he sounded, no less – like a broken record, never mind that he’s used to throwing the same arguments and lament at the selfsame insecurity that’s always been flung a quarter of the way across the room. [...]

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