rushed songbirds

By Adonis Alegre

i am like felicity who starts with something nice
and ends all things with fire. 
and i would want to be an orphan 
from somebody's mouth, atleast, for awhile.

the stars are ghoslty but beside my other eye;
i rigor this door

if the people of the common 
had went some borning,
i ate worry in the yearning-years of my youth

like rushed songbirds,
spiraling out of my tentacled-mind
and drafting dreams like i’m nowhere to go.

my moral flutings: 
a sharp tongue sharpens my pen like a pendulum, or
a ferocious thing will happen 
but only when i learn to bite back.

and without some teeth,
i couldn't able to send letters about a house 
that imitates everybody 
from its furious tongue-like felonies.

it was an old tale to never leave your mind 
like a dead man’s only child—
heart-hopeful,
the night of changing people is here 
and if a silver ship will poke them gently, 

where gold is a goal, 
where truth is theirs alone, 

i hope somewhere there will treat me kindly, 
or gently,
in a way i will forget how bad others & myself can be.

Adonis Alegre is a poet from Bacnotan, La Union. He took his Bachelor’s Degree in AB English at Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University. You can read his poems in Panitikan PH, Querencia Press, Livina Press, among others.