Gloomy skies; clouds tearing up in the horizon
Waves have stopped kissing the seashore
Chirping crickets half-way reaching their crescendo

 while seagulls stopped mobbing the predators
Butterflies and their broken wings—
Hostile wind brings only sting
Castle in the air slowly fading in view…
Disconsolate soul breaks lose as
agony is freed in the window of his soul.
All other screams muffled and subdued.

                                                                                                               ~ Dr. Luzviminda Rivera

                                                         Tarlac Province, Philippines