isang MAINIT NA GABI

Written On: April 23, 2010 01: 17 am

Sometime like this last night, April 22; what were you doing?

You maybe were still up playing on your computer.
Maybe you were trying to finish Chapter 23 of Meyer’s book
You maybe were watching a late TV show.
Or you may have been busy chatting with your girl over the phone.
Maybe you were trying to say good night on Plurk.
You maybe were out in Magsaysay, or somewhere else, dancing the night away.
You might have been sweating it all out; after, you know.
Maybe you were at the shower having your nightly routine.
Or maybe you were simply fast asleep. Snoring. Cozily dozed.

Whatever you were doing then,
I know it wasn’t praying or kissing your mom good night.

You were occupied, occupied by your self-satisfying regimens,
Why pray, or kiss your mom good night if you can do it the next day…
Or maybe the next of that…
Or even the next of that next day.

On this very moment though, exactly a day ago, somebody died.
He was my neighbor, 22, male, single and perfectly healthy.
Binangungot, they say. He died in his sleep.

Physically capable, intellectually promising and sexually charming…
He had a life, just like ours…
But on this very same hour, he passed away.

Ikaw? How would you end this day?
We don’t really know what our next day would be,
what the next hour may cause
or what our next minute would be;
even what the next second may bring is, but a mystery.

Pero pa’no…
If there’s no more next time?

Goodnight folks. Spread the love. peace