Connections

To family, friends, and people who have made 2012 meaningful...salamat.

How do we connect?

Keeping bonds. Starting new ties. 

Reconnecting. Leaving for awhile.

Setting boundaries. Mending discord. 

Forgiving. Being forgiven. Letting go.

Laughing at the trivial insanities of the everyday.

Resting in the pause between phrases and prolonged silences.

Intellectualizing the minute details over a brewed cup.

Getting wasted by the amplified sound and a spirited glass.

Comforting the hurt and the wounded.

Inflicting pain. Getting bruised. Scarred. 

Breaking down, lying flat on the bathroom floor.

Burning the letters, the promises. Starting from scratch.

Different time zones, separated by a thousand seas.

Traveling miles, meeting halfway. Serendipitous, maybe.

7 billion people in the world, or so they say.

And here I am. Here you are.

Standing in one place.