+ The Joker's Mask Poem by Jordan Legaspi

The Joker's mask


Facing the empty horizon before me
Where dry wind blew so heavily
Chasing shadows of everything I see
Just like the morning of old uncertainty
But what is this troubled thought of you
Like a dagger that strikes my armored chest
Wounded of knowing a friend
and now I don't know-
After the famous line “I love you”
that once heard my heart melts
While whose answer cannot let hold of the pieces
That was and is, still the reason I cry
Not a child- not a man who believes
but me- the why that cannot face the truth
of me- the mask that chained my foot.


(Cebu City, Philippines 2004)