చావుకీ, బ్రతుకుకీ మధ్య వేలాడే శూన్యంలో

ఎవరికీ కనపడకుండా ఉండాలని దొరికిన ఆధారాన్ని పట్టుకుని

ఒకమూలకి ఒదుక్కుని ఉంటాము;

మన మాటలకీ, చేతలకీ మధ్యనున్న సంబంధం

మనం అర్థం అయిందనుకున్నంతమట్టుకు, ఒక సాలెగూడు అల్లుకుంటాం

చివరకి అపార్థాలే మిగిలినా;

వెంటనే దృష్టిపెట్టవలసిన అవసరాలూ,

మనం ఆవేశంతో జరిపే చర్చల …

సందిగ్ధ జారుడుతలం మీద నడుస్తూ

నన్ను నేను ప్రశ్నించుకుంటుంటాను

“ఇంతకీ నేను ఇక్కడ ఏం చేస్తున్నట్టు?”

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సిసీలియా బొరోమియో,

సమకాలీన ఫిలిప్పీన్ కవయిత్రి

Cecilia_Borromeo

Filipino Poetess

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Restless

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It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying

crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges

only to remain unseen;

We weave our web of what we believe we understand

of the relationship of our acts and events

only to remain misunderstood;

From that odd wisp of steam of heated discussions

to the urgent hiss of a new page calling;

I teeter on that thin ice —

That single space of uncertainty —

And I ask

“What am I doing here?”.

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Cecilia Borromeo

Contemporary Filipino Poetess

Poem Courtesy:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/cecilia_borromeo/poems/21841

 

Cecilia Borromeo was born in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. She now lives in Brussels, Belgium where she has been based for the past 7 years and where she has fulfilled her dream to become a scientist (currently: unemployed). Her poems and prose are widely read in her personal blog Clearcandy Daily (http://welcometoappleciders.blogspot.com) and dreams to get her work in print someday soon. She is known to write from the heart and is continuously training herself to meet her imagination so she can continue her love affair with words and to mold them to mean different things. She draws inspiration mostly from her own experiences and is in awe of her favorite poet, Mark Strand. After a tough day of surfing the net for jobs, she loves to lie in her couch for the rest of the evening thinking of chocolates and waffles. When not consumed by sugary thoughts, she enjoys diabetes literature, islet amyloidosis, reading poems out loud, learning the violin and dancing around the apartment.