FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

the music runs through the empty streets
of this town,
the singer is singing a tagalog song of longing
the woman left him
for another man in another city and he is overwhelmed with
so much grief that this morning he sings too early when
breakfast is still not available in the nearby
carinderia

rain has arrived finally
and umbrella becomes an important item for women who
ready themselves for the usual haggling
wanting always a discounted buy
of almost everything
a native woman sells onions harvested from the foot of a hill
after three months under the sun
the mornings there are as cold as a dead fish from the river
a day has its own way of making things happen
a song of sorrow splits the mind not knowing how to choose
the right thing to do under the given circumstance
an unpredictable weather: rain on a black Saturday
and a native woman who does not get what she deserves
injustice, that feeling of " i do not deserve this"
is an eternal longing, a song of sorrow that floats in the air
as always,clouds, clouding.