summer contemplations
the slow contemplations of summer as i ruminate over
a pack of cigarettes and my drunken reverie of thoughts
and wanton inhibitions.
silent and dreadful, the want of summer yearning inside me
yet trapped inside a dreadful stupor of thoughts and facts.
days of reminiscing are abruptly halted as i contemplate
over a summer wrought by requirements and expectations.
i reminisce on the green mangoes that i had once picked up
by the sea shore, now forgotten on the white earth.
the beach house overlooking the blue sea, awaits, beckoning me to go back.
but it’s now filled with the feelings of neglect and despair after
waiting for the touch of a human for over a year.
the beer bottles and the table underneath the palm tree’s are cracked
and buried beneath the white sand,
and the table is now but a distant memory in someone’s camera.
no more crashing waves, no more boisterous laughter by the bonfire as
the embers fly away into the high seas.
all gone and only the rough scratchings of a pencil or a pen over paper
are heard, and the monotonous drone of a boring professor are heard as
i slip back into my reverie of thoughts and memories of a summer long gone.
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