Old Temple
Tranquility reigns inside this temple.
It passes through the shattered wall
As if a storm surge came and conquered the Earth---
Sea no more; just mud and dirt!
The air around is like sighs from melting ice,
Touching the very flesh of roaches and mice.
Day and night seem simulated by a wandering firefly,
Resembling a star that's lonely in sight
'Cause it's lonely inside...
Oh, so lonely inside.
About this poem
This is a revised version of the poem with the same title. The poem was first published in 1998 in the literary folio, "Shades of Gray". The poem was revised by the poet, himself, to give tribute to the gallant calamity victims who survived the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda that ravaged the southern part of the Philippines in 2013.
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