Bless

“ang iyong halaga ay labis-

labis na masusukat
sa mga hindi ko sukat
akalaing kaya kong gawin

kahit
ayaw
ko.”
― Lean Borlongan, Sansaglit

“Mapupuyat ang buwan sa pag-iisip ko sa ‘yo.
Muli’t muli kong
isusulat ang pangalan mo
hanggang makalikha ng tula

sa pagbabakasakaling sa susunod kong paglalakad
tangan ko na’ng iyong palad.”
― Lean Borlongan, Sansaglit

“Suspected of ties with the Communist New People’s Army, he disappeared after a lightning rally of farmers and students in Manila in the early 1970s and had not been heard from since. His family believed he had been rounded up by the Metrocom, along with a few other activists and students who had taken part in the rally. He was one of the thousands — fifteen hundred by one count, more than three thousand by another — who fell victim to salvaging. It was a term perverted by the regime’s goons to refer to the extrajudicial killings that had become a dirty open secret of the dictatorship.”
― F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles

“Mainly he just wanted to forget. High school was one very long, very bad dream.”
― F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles