Mahigit sa kaibigan, butiki

More than friends, lizard

i saw the lizard crying
he said i left the lizard crying
he knows i'm gone for a long time

he was company everyday
i saw him on the wall
scurrying about denying gravity

he wait every morning
for me to wake
he collected the night
so i can wake

i decided his name
just naming him gecko
it just seems to fit

i hear the lizard crying
he is alone now
but he was such a friend
he was always there as i slept

slept though the night
knowing the lizard was there
now he sleeps alone
as i am gone now

now i am in aircon
with hot water shower
and another friend for companion
but not as good of companion as you

oh dear lizard do not cry
you will have me back again
then i can sleep though the night
knowing you are there

Reviews

[Danielle Asher]

oh , i love this piece. the visual of the lizard is so dear. I have to admit the first thing I thought of was my time I did mission work in Dominica and I was in the church and people would scream as the lizards would crawl through the church and watch them hang on the walls. It is just like how in the US we have spiders everywhere and people (myself included) are very scared of those spiders. Anyway, I of course then felt deeper into the poem and understood it to be much deeper. The metaphor made me smile and feel sad thinking of the loneliness. How hard it is to be apart. The piece is just absolutely charming!

[FatalityWriter467]

Lizards do not cry and I do not appreciate your distortion of facts. Also if you could see me I am crying too because this poem is terrible. F-

[San Herman Lopez a.k.a...]

Very interesting piece Cece... I love the way you play with your words and thoughts. You make writing what it should be. FUN

[Voltaire Mephisto (aka ..]

abstract and strange, but beautiful like Wonderland.

[Kevon]

I enjoy how things are worded in this piece,good write, enjoyed reading

[Jason]

Thank you for your review. This was very good and I hope to read more of your work soon. Keep it up. I love the idea of the lizard.

The best part of your poem is that you retained your identity and culture in your work, this is something that I would appreciate with Gabriel Garcia Marquez as well. Writing in English does not necessarily make us lose our culture, we just have to write the way we are. Your use of certain words and grammatical technique weaves the local color in your poem. Its culture makes it genuinely a gem.

[Joseph - Michael]

This is really nice and cute piece you've written. A lot of people will not believe that a lizard would cry like that. That goes the same with the rest of the reptiles as well. I mean, they said that the reptiles are cold-blooded creatures, but when they say that, they also believe that the retiles are cold hearted, too

Anyway, it's all still good though...

One more thing; What does the title means?

[Brenda Sue]

Very well written. I like it very much. Wonderfully penned. Great job.

[A.r. Bazian]

i like!
i really do!
very good techniques and rhyme!

keep it up!

[thecoolone52]

yeah i really liked the whole gecko thing...... theres a ton of them in florida and they just kinda walk around its pretty cool.... anyway nice poem i liked this one!!!