Jogging Lesson At Palilan Shoreline Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

written at Jumeirah open beach
facing Persian Gulf, UAE

with nostalgic feelings
a reminiscing.........


while jogging along Palilan shore
Philippines
salted sands get into
my right rubber shoe

I take the shoe off
remove what causes discomfort

I've learned:
when the mind is veiled with injurious thoughts
and radiates only gloom -
get rid of the mind's rubbish
assert mental positive antidotes....

As I jog through graveled shore
on a way back home

tiny pebble gets into
my left running shoe

now I take both shoes off

take bare-footed walk

I've learned:
when the road we've taken
filled with adversities
walk on
traverse all barriers
even beyond others aid