+ Thief In Paradise Poem by Jordan Legaspi

Thief in Paradise


Sometimes looking at
Sometimes caught between the act
Life a thief in paradise
A lost soul nothing to dice
A while hell is open and come in
But don’t know what the other’s doing
A moment lately I don’t know the day
Heaven for a moment open up and go in
But don’t want to stay where the others been
Oh in paradise I am only hanging on a cliff
Empty bottle swims on the ocean
Without any importance and of you oh wise
The paradise is such a big disguise
For me only thief in the paradise


(City of Mati, Philippines 1998)