That Certain Man Named Belebel Poem by RIC BASTASA

when you call i am somewhere in
Pedro Gil
an hour ago i was in Taft
feeling the crowd of
Kabayan

i stop for a while thinking where
to go next
but then i find myself lurking in
a room
without nothing in mind

it is not strange to me
i am always on the move but i am not
looking for anything

they say that we were born with feet
so we have to use them
it is just this time that i realize
what mother told me once about
a certain Belebel

who is he? mother tells me that he was a
man of God
condemned to walk and never stop
because something in him is longing
for something that
he never once found
until he died and then
God smiled at him
because he walked and then
he lived and
then he died
with all his feet
connected
to earth.....