Christmas celebration is now past by days…
The celebratory spirit it brings with it lingers still.
That of this year seemed different to me…
People seems more honest in their gift giving…
And in their celebration…

Why this change?
Could it be that the current economic quagmire induce this change?
Could it be that there is a mass recognition of the true meaning of Christmas?
Could it be that commercialism is finally letting go of the death grip it has on Christmas?
Maybe it’s all in my head, or just a fluke…

The honesty and innocency of Christmas almost shone through…
Almost, for certainty of that may not be embrace at this time
Till the next Christmas affirms of denies this…
Now let’s move on and see what the next Christmas has to say about this.

Now that it is all done and over with
I hope the elected remember their promises…
To keep and to uphold till they are fulfilled.

It is one thing to win the votes in an election
But another to win and keep the minds of the voters,
Some vote out of duty, some out of ignorant, others out of passion and zeal…
Nevertheless the voters have all spoken
and a winer has emerged…

Emerged to what or for what…
Is the question that has to be answered
Is this a wining victory, or a loosing victory for the elected?
Time shall tell…
Now that it is all done…
Let’s wait and see..

Gush the noise…
How they grow louder and louder…
They come wave after wave persistently
with each wave getting louder and longer
while the intervals between the waves get ever shorter and slimmer…

In vain I searched for a quite place, space or crevice
From which to observe this curious occurrence
The stupefaction and idiotification of the masses by political frenzy
The question that comes to mind is, What happened to civilization?
Or was there ever one?

The line have been drawn, sides have been taken
I can see and feel the tension mounts as both sides tear at each other like savage beast
Their sense of reasoning seems to have vacated them..
The media that is supposed to be the watchdog for the truth are the first to sacrifice truth at the alter of delusion.
The intellectual elites, though opened their mouth, what come out are devoid of objective rational…
They are like brutish plagued with imbecility.

Open your eyes and reasoning to see the travesty that’s staring you in the face
The line drawn is false. For before you is a political trickery…
This is nothing but one coin…..
So what you think are diametrically opposite is not so
but two sides of the same coin…

I suspect who ever wins come election day, would make no difference…
For there is one that always wins, the one that own the coin.
Ho the noise again…
I wish these fools will be quite, if only for a while, and let common sense prevail..
Ha, I almost forgot they’ve killed common sense…

Ours is a society of constant learning
We learn continually…
Accumulation of information in hopes of increase in knowledge
How to get this done….
How to get that done…

We are so enamored with learning how to
That we run the risk of not making time for the actual doing
In being so preoccupied with the study of life…
We never make the time to live life.

Always learning…
But never getting any wiser
Becoming more inform in theories…
Practically becoming more bankrupt existentially
We are studying ourselves in to imbecility

It is awfully quiet here…
The silence is so definite and overbearing
My feelings can not sense the silence…
But somehow I can tell of the empty silence

Engulfing me like a shroud…
But leaving no sense of touch or contact
My nerves reach out…
Striving and straining to sense the surrounding
Perplex by the void senseless sensation…

I think but I can not think
I sensed somehow, though I can not sense
That I am cocooned over by void of silence
I can not feel…
Please do not ask me how I know…
For I do not know, but know somehow.

I feel nothing…
Not even me, myself or I
In that moment when time seems to freeze
And you are left in silence devoid of feelings
When you can not even feel you…
Senses feelings are phantoms here

Some situations are just so enigmatic
That the mind can’t fathom…
Where to begin or what thoughts to think
The heart does the thinking this time

But oh, how deep are the thoughts of the heart
The mind, struggle it may to understand but to no avail.

There is a thought, a reasoning process of the heart
That the mind can never understand…
Just like the physical can never fully understand the spirit.
This is the mystery am facing…

As I sat down staring at my computer screen
eyes heavy with sleep
Brain fatigued from the hard days job
Body craving for the bed…

But, but a part of me is determined to write
For it has been a day of hard work
I can feel my body protesting
Protesting against any similitude of work…

The day is almost done
The night has spread its wings over us
I could feel a haze settling over me
The melodious song of goodnight-rest I could hear
In dream or in reality I could hardly fathom
But even now I sense a goodnight rest luring me to sleep…

The day is almost done
Goodnight till dawn bids you welcome…

In the course of my journey through life’s pathway
I’ve become aware of a presence…
A presence that is always there unnoticed
It’s there in the dark and in the light but still unnoticed.

Perplex by this constant presence, I dare asked..
Who are you or what are you?
Why are you always in the company of humans?
It looked at me steadfastly in response to my questions.

Then calmly said…
I rule over human kind and my name is Hypocrisy
I dwell in every human and make them do my biding…
I endued them with the ability to change faces at will…
They love to hate me, hence the denial of my presence

In rage I grabbed its by the  throat and slammed it against the wall,
In response it let out a grotesque spin shilling laughter….
Pinning it against the wall, I looked into its eyes
Beholding all forms, size, color and types of humans
Among them I saw one that looks very familiar…

No not familiar, it was I…
I was staring at me
And of all the hypocrites I saw, I was the most…
The most… the most hideous
O my God, what a state of denial
We are all hypocrites, but of them all…
My hypocrisy knows no bound.

Welcome to your future 2008
You’ve dreamed, aspired and work toward this future…
Behold here it is…The future you’ve so eagerly raced towards is here…
Welcome to 2008… Happy New Year!!!
Yes, it is new, but not for long…

Your dreams, your desires, your aspirations and hopes for this year…
May they be attained.
May your thoughts duel on the positive things that edifies…
May you see beyond the mire physical, into the supernatural

May your path be strewn with success
Not the kind that overwhelms…
But the kind of success that blesses you and those around you
May you be able to see beyond yourself…
Reach beyond yourself, and touch others
For there is healing in reaching out to others.

I wish you the very best that life has to offer this year…
Above all, I wish you Peace, Love and Joy…
Though the world might be starved of these three virtues.
May you attained them…
And all the wonders they bring along.
Welcome to 2008

Have some gifts wrapping to do…
Still have some phone calls to be made…
Got to cleanup this messing apartment…
Ha! Christmas is here… It’s Christmas!!
Oh! Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
Phew! That was close…
We get so busy with the Christmas traditions…
That at time we end up missing Christmas itself.

As you celebrate this Christmas, with your loved ones…
Or even all by yourself…
May the joy, peace and love of this Christmas be yours in abundance.

May you see and experience the true meaning of Christmas
in a light and clarity that you’ve never experienced before.
May the essence of the child “Christ” whose birth we commemorate
today be revealed to your heart…
For, it transforms…

It’s Christmas!!
Merry, merry Christmas to you