To find certainty

I balled out
a sanctuary of butterflies
inside me
and let them go.

They searched for you

Amidst the uncertainty.

They found you watering
a garden of daisies and marigold
preparing their migration.

I _ _ _ _ you !

Emotions are fleeting,
Just as the clouds change shapes
the moment I pass Ortigas avenue.

But words are not
especially if they are embossed
so pronouncedly on my
perpetual memories.

Fillers

for Sookie

How do you cover the little gaps
in between almost perfectly laid tiles?
You fill them with fillers
that make them look perfect from afar.

You, October!

for October in October in the Chair, Neil Gaiman

You are like to stories of October.
You linger more than September,
but not as haunting as November,
and not as joyful as December.