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In forty eight hours

I leave behind what I thought

I was just beginning to reprint in mind again

After years of absence

From what once was a familiar life -

Of ups and downs

Of toils and tough grind

Of challenges and survival

Of fears and confidences

Of knowns and unknowns

Wondering whether or not

Tomorrow …

I’d wake up alive or dead

Wondering whether or not

Tomorrow …

Would there be hunger or filled stomach

At the end of each waking day!

My not so brief visit back to Manila

Is right this minute consumed with nostalgia.

In forty eight hours … I again leave behind

All I’ve known and all I’ve wished to just bury

Deep or much deeper still …

In the dark recesses of my mind!