Darkness Fell

Some asked you why long for trysts in the dark? Actually, you don't. You just have to. People around you seem to conceal the harsh realities. There are some who would rather talk about rainbows and flowers. They're beautiful alright. But what about the harsh realities we often conceal? What about the feelings we stifle so to deny the pain and what about those whose stories need to be told for us to do something? You see, a stand would be a good starting point towards a step, even a simple one...

When a weeping mother would say "I'm OK" even if she is nursing bruises due to domestic violence, we consider this as none of our business. It's a private thing, we like to assure ourselves with such reason. When we see a little child on the street so dirty and so hungry, we like diverting our eyes to the flowers. When we see our neighbor's kids smoking and flirting around with boys at midnight, we put more pillows near our ears and blame technology for having kids like these around.

Yeah, we don't have the time for these thoughts. We are so busy with our lives and we don't like to muddle with things which could not make us rich. We leave the church activities to the "poor" and bloat our egos with activities in the society like gatherings and social drinking and self-serving things like gambling... Money is using us to become worldly slaves.

We are allowing our society to eat on its own towards decay. When someone would tell us these, a lot would react and find retorts like: Who is he by the way? Why is he talking like that, as if he's perfect! That faggot!

It's sad to think that human nature is having a reverse evolution. These could be seen on our kids...

Dogs are territorial beasts, they like to mark their territory by peeing on the soil. Once another dog would come to his area, he would fight even to his death by simply not allowing someone to cross his territory. We see this attitude with the kids in Doyos and Baybay. Rocks would fly when someone would simply cross the border. Even if the priest would become hoarse with his sermons to stop such evil, we get distracted by trying to find the rainbow.

Whenever these things happen, we could not dare tell our children. They're better than us and we are too busy looking for our own pleasures. We find ways and means to buy moisturizers, straighten our hair and find effective astringents to whiten our skin...

That's the reason why it's good to have trysts in the dark and pull some things to the light. Even if the things there could hurt and turn one's stomach, he must visit such places.

We could start looking at our children and give them an avenue where darkness is present but not threatening. We have to be there for them. Our legacy could start within...

Come to the dark, let's have a tryst. Who knows we might find some things in there worth our efforts than simply existing.

Let's have a life.


(Art: dansemacabrenz.com)