on the island of my senses U have lost your shape the shadow of leaves fallen a bed of limbs in stalemate a crash of muted waves in diminishing dimension but last night in black & white a dream of lovers' eyes a song on an old phonograph a moving photograph of U & I sometimes in the dusk when the sky bleeds certain shades the color in between us is the sky that binds us never-ending you begin on & on & on I only know U are for real but last night in black & white a dream of lovers' eyes a song on an old phonograph a moving photograph of U & I

(February 22, 1994, Jorge Bocobo, Ermita Manila - 1996)