SKY PARAGLIDER

 

 

 

Sky Paraglider

 

By: Bertha

 

I’ve decided not to fight the storm and stood in the middle of the havoc

Maybe I could learn to read the stars then I would be prepared for the chaos in my heart

On my knees I whispered to the earth that cradled my tears

May a flower bloom in the midst of scorn

Like a child a broken heart was new to me

A perfect stranger was a fallacy

A realist caught in a confusing fantasy

Broken families, intense miseries

The sky was my only blanket from loneliness

The vast universe was a bed that could grant me deep slumber

A bird with no wings, a fish out of the ocean

A yearning so strong, the towering trees seems inviting

I clasped the straps that gave me wings

I longed for the clouds embrace

 For a moment I would feel how to own the sky

And the fear won’t drown my determination to try

Slowly I ran, one step at a time

Not rushing for death

For only time can reveal a pure heart

Patience can overcome distance and insanity

Trials and separation gives birth to loyalty

So here I come after a calculated risk

A Sky Paraglider claiming love

       A Sky Paraglider jumping off a cliff    

 

Breakaway Kelly Clarkson
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-j-b5ia94

 

 

 



PRISM

 

 

 

PRISM

By:Bertha

 

 

There under the broken ceiling of a cold castle

Stood the clouds that hides the warm beam of the sun

As droplets of water falls on my forehead

And trickles down on my neck and chills the boredom of my youth

I inhale the misty air of looming memories of days old

Dancing with the wind on my shoulders

Finger entwined on the deep curls of my hair

I grasp what seems to be an invincible wall

Caressing it gently with my soft warm hands

As it slowly crumbles and kiss the ground

I have freed myself from the burdens of fear

Gently with hopeful eyes I watched the sun

peek through the open sky where clouds seems

to wave goodbye

Though the heavens did not cease to shed it

tears there was beauty in the midst of the

tiny droplets of diamonds that bathe me in

pure ecstasy

It created a world of rainbows where once was

dull and full of apathy

Although the storm has not passed, and the

tremors is imminent

I gaze on colourful sunshine that kisses the

rain….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Away from Heaven

"Sometimes we simply have to learn from that little child inside all of us...."

A teen guardian angel who made a fiasco with one of her past charge was sent back to fix it only to find out that she has transformed into a tough hearted influential grown-up woman, and the only way to correct it is to posses her body every now and then.

The Unwanted Child By: Bertha

THE UNWANTED CHILD

CHAPTER THREE

A MAN’S STRUGGLE

               A woman lie in her bed as she violently tossed and turned, breathing rapidly, she suddenly opened her eyes and abruptly sat on her bed as she try to toss away the nightmare that has hunted her,  she sobbed as her two sleek female hands covered her teary eyed face.

               Then suddenly John felt a pang of pain at the back of his neck that instantly woke him up from that disturbing dream with his face half buried on top of his desk. He was reading a bunch of documents which have piled incredibly at his desk when he unknowingly dozed off, it was half past ten when John Salcedo realized he had a party to go to. But somehow at the back of his mind he has been really bothered by that re-occurring dream.

               Though John was brought up in a very well and sound surrounding and raised by devoted Catholic parents he felt numb inside, there was always this sense of loneliness and emptiness in his heart, he could not express his emotions. So most of the time he simply follow what his brain tells him to do rather than his heart, for he himself does not trust his own heart.

               But for the first time in 38 years John heard a tiny voice inside of him that seems to come from the beating of his heart, as he stood in front of this woman whose eyes sets of a feeling of exhaustion. There was this tiny spark that somehow sent shiver to his spine.

Dana spoke politely trying to hide her disappointment “ I’m sorry but my calling card has not been made yet, and my number is international roaming so it would be impractical to give it .”

John replied “well it seems I have misplaced mine, but anyway since Jeana is your cousin we’ll probably bumped into each other again, oh it's getting really late will you be alright? I mean will Jeana’s driver will bring you home tonight?”

“I appreciate your concern, I was hoping she would remember her promise but knowing Jeana, but no worries I have a company driver waiting outside for me, since I just flew in this morning it will be at my disposal for a while till I get a hang of the new environment.” Dana said with a light laugh.

Then suddenly John felt a shock of vibration in his pocket, realizing it was his mobile phone he reached out for it and excused himself to answer it. The glow on John’s face left as soon as it appeared....

“Hello?” “Dad what seems to be the matter, you sound very weak?”

“What? Mom collapsed?” John said with a very pale expression.

“Okay I’m on my way” John hurriedly walked out to the door without even saying a polite nod and farewell to Dana.

               John with cold hands pushed opened the door to the emergency room, he felt light headed due to unpleasant emotions mixed with physical exhaustion, he saw his father sitting with his hands on his face on a chair near the door.

“Dad!” John said as he rushed to his father’s side.

John with a shivering voice asked “Dad are you okay? What happened to mom?”

His father answered wearily “She was clutching her chest while she was praying, then suddenly she fell of her chair, good thing I was there beside her, she asked me for the first time not to go to my friends it’s a good thing I was the....” his voice trailed off. 

“Dad don’t worry, mom will pull through she’ll be okay, she’s a very strong woman she will be okay” John said in assurance.

“Oh I know, she promised me she will be my partner till the end, she will not leave me.” Lando Salcedo said with tears threatening to fall from his eyes.

              

The Heartbreak Song

BY: BERTHA

Mending pieces of a broken heart

Is the hardest thing if you don’t know where to start

It takes all your will and bring you to your knees

Leaving you with nothing but a blind eye to see

Still your hopes are up waiting for the sun

To breakdown the walls of a shattered egoistic man

You prayed, and you cried anticipating old love will be revived

Trying to keep all the good memories alive

Chorus:

But tell me how will love survive

If the melody can’t be found

When the heart is numb, and hears no sound

All the visions on TV, they bleed like corpse

And it swept daylight with a mighty force

Arrogance claimed a thousand cheers

For a heartbreak song that could not shed a single tear

So tell me how, tell me how, how will love survive?

Two hearts drifted apart when the music died

The voices in my head are out of tune

The songs we used to dance are gone so soon

Promises spoken in the name of love

Honestly broken by someone you never had  

Still your hopes are up waiting for the sun

To breakdown the walls of a shattered egoistic man

You prayed, and you cried anticipating the music of love will be revived

Trying to keep all the good memories alive

Chorus:

Bridge:

Maybe in heaven, the music will never end,

There we will find what we lost

Exist for the things we cherished the most  

GRAFITTI

To seek the truth in the eyes of each stranger that wanders by this lonely road

A rainbow created words on these cold stoned walls that brought the warmth of summer under the winter rain

It screams a man’s pain to the world that has embraced a bleeding heart

A story once told on this dark corner of the world that had shed tears of a soul on its knees

He lost all his faith in the midst of glorified battles

Scared and wounded he holds himself in a tight embrace

Each stroke, the brush and spray that breathe on this bare hedge

It creeps in the night as you slumber in your bed and it strikes every inch of being in your waking hours

To clamour for the lost of innocence, the purity of love, the immortality of art

He made each image in his mind a breathing symbol of undying love,

A fortress against the corruption of the heart

To bring the broken to life, for this stranger weeps in grotesque, on an abandoned lodge

THE UNWANTED CHILD

CHAPTER TWO

  A BRAND NEW LIFE

           

            Four heavy Italian leather trolleys stood beside a sleek and slender fair skinned woman standing five feet and four inches high wearing a classic blue and orange geometric print shirt dress and a pair of summer dainty silver sandals, she patiently waited in front of the arrival area at a local airport. Dana Tiocson with a pair of Gucci oversized sunglasses on her sweet fine silky bronze toned face hailed a taxi cab under the scorching heat of the afternoon sun.

           Dana just flew in from New York, she had just accepted a two year contract from a large British pharmaceutical company who branched out in the east, she had been working for one of the best hospital in the US for the past eight years, now in her mid thirties Dana after twenty five years decided to move back to her native land.   

             Dr. Dana Tiocson a graduate of New York University Medical school, a paediatrician is the middle child of a widow who migrated in the US in the eighties and remarried an American national; her mother had two more children in her second marriage. Dana has been struggling emotionally; she is trying to recover from a horrible past. She was hoping that maybe with the new environment, she will be able to put back together her broken self and put the past behind her.     

           Dana opened the door of her new pad in the middle of the city, she took a deep breath, exhaled and whispered to herself, “So this must be the smell of a new life....”. Dana flung her branded leather bag on the couch and shut the door behind her, on her way to the bathroom she heard her mobile ringing, she stopped and turned around wondering who could be calling her at this time when the times zones from where she was and where she came from are truly far apart, taking a deep breath she curiously answered “Hello?”....

        The maid led Dana to the pool side of a three story luxurious and lavish home of one of her very      closest relatives, she stood in the middle of the living room trying to find a familiar face in the crowd. It’s been so long since she went to a gathering where most of the people don’t know her. It was a very private party among very close foreign friends and relatives whom she has not seen for a couple of years now. As she walked through the crowd of unfamiliar faces suddenly the room gave her a sense of nostalgia.

         She had a flash of her childhood days.  Her father was teaching her and her sister to ride a bike, while in a trance she accidentally bumped into a tall and dark handsome intellectual looking man. They both locked in a gazed for a few seconds as the man swiftly reached out to steady her, and as soon as both of them got back to their senses the handsome stranger broke the silence and introduced himself as John and offered a handshake, Dana took the handshake with a weak response due to a travel jet lag.      

        Hours passed and to Dana’s amazement she found herself enjoying a very light conversation with this stranger whose outside appearance seems to show a very serious persona. And as the flow of the conversation got deeper, it made Dana realized that John’s family seems to have close ties with her cousin’s family.

       John could not remember how far back he had really enjoyed talking to a stranger, especially to a woman, when truthful he knew how hard it is for someone like him to open up and talk about life. Although most of the time he was surrounded by empowered women, but most of them seem to be in the middle of a gender identity crisis, due to their tiger like personalities that eventually sends any man in his good mind to his fierce defense.

        Suddenly out of nowhere the host of the party Dana’s cousin Jeana approached them with a big grin on her face and said in a very well mannered voice, “Hello cousin, so it seems you have met the man of the hour.”

         Dana answered in a surprised but teasing manner “ Man of the hour, oh really? So to whom do I owe the honor of speaking to you?”    

        John answered with a heartily laugh “Jeana, so tell me how long has it been, two days...? Well were enjoying a no brainer conversation here really, so let’s not drag in complicated things shall we....”

“Oh I don’t know John, it’s your aura it seems to give off royalty can’t help but get royalty flushed, must be that broad shoulders and manly features,” Jeana said with a few hand gestures, “ and you my dearest cousin, whom I have not laid eyes for the longest time, you seem to have blossom to a rare species over time, come and give sweet me a hug.”

“Lovely to see you too cuz,” Dana said as she locked herself in a tight embrace.

“Now as much as I want to stay for chit chat,” she whispered “ I can see that people are still the same, the party always starts at midnight, well I have no choice but be the door man for awhile, Dana sweetie I’ll get back to you later” she waved as she walked towards the door.

          And as the night went on, Dana knew in her heart that she was right where she needed to be.