I Am Talking About Dad Poem by RIC BASTASA

what i heard from grandma's
sister
was that he also lost his mind
for a time
and that was when he tried to
jump through a window of that
old two-storey house
built by grandpa after he married
a beautiful lass from
cebu

in 1961 the house was the last
one gutted by fire which razed
the whole city leaving only
the bookstore of the most religious
woman there
whom everyone approves and of course
the catholic church which to this
day remained undestroyed by those
passing calamities

i am talking about dad.