Karl’s Brew Café In Buhangin Poem by RIC BASTASA

You were singing the joys of your life
In a small café cramped with friends
And some just curious for your voice
And some who knew you can sing
And sing so beautifully
Like a magical bird
Like a mythical bird

Crowded you showered them with
All your love
My three friends texted
“It is sad why you are not here with us
My son danced with her song
He lifted my chair so I will dance too
And oblige to sing one of those songs
He really loved”

Tess I see enjoyed the show very well
And we heard something beautiful

“Without you”, because as you said
You are always “busy somewhere else”

It was that injustice which you did
That we cannot explain to Cynthia

Always your unexplained absence
Always your disappearing act