Maybe it's Only Us...

On two sides

was the bright beach,

behind,

the lagoon.

In front,

the darkness of the island.

He found himself

understading

the wearisomeness of life.

Only here could be allow his feet to move

Sun in his face;

though it were part of a brighter childhood.

There must be no mistake

no chasing imaginary...

about this assembly.

Not for laughing

or for falling off the log

not for making jokes

not fun

but bussiness.

Bring water from streams,

shelters,

then the fire....

And the Beast:

the black,

humped figure

against the lagoon.

Considering

the vast streches of water,

the high sea beyond,

heard silently

the sough,

the whisper from the reef;

unknown infinate of possiblities.

It's fear

but there's nothing in it

Fear can't hurt you anymore than a dream....

Crybabies!

Be frightened

if you like.

But as for the beast--

I'm a hunter or not?

The assembly cried out savagley

Ralph

moved restlessly

stood up in amazement

looked at jack open mouthed.

You Simon?

You believe in this?

Maybe it's only us....

The world,

that understandable

and lawful

world,

was slipping away so suddenly.

Maybe it's only us.

Where I'm From

I am from weekend's homemade pancakes,

dripping with butter and maple syrup.

I am from downstairs parks of tall buildings,

capacious, mysterious, and secret.

I'm from the silent whistle of the wind.

I'm from fresh orchids, the cape gooseberry.

From the sunday breakfasts, and evening movies.

I am from the never let you down, and I'm here for you.

From Daddy's support, to Mommy's comfort.

From don't play with fire or you'll get burned,

to it's friday let's get out of the city.

I'm from catholic views, but atheist habits.

I am from Colombia, BB-Q meat, and homemade rice.

From the days we started our new life,

on another page

I'm from the biggest step taken.

From the fading encrypted memories in the albums,

casually remembered, yet never forgotten.

I am from those moments,

a permanent path that is carved to the core,

reaching the roots

of where I am from.

WWL8- Japan Earthquake

One Japan's most powerful earthquake recorded stroke on a copious area of the north east coast on Friday, March 11, preceding a ten meter tsunami.

The fitful quake of an 8,9 magnitude, took place during the evening. It affected the community and the people -- leaving about 10,000 daunting deaths.

The audible sound of the buildings crushing down was a crucial call for authorities to evacuate the remaining victims; but once they saw the tremendous wave coming, there wasn't any adept action they could deploy to decelerate the calamitous wave that on a speed of 200 kilometers per hour deluged the capacious streets of the northeaster coast land.

Many homes were destroyed taken by the water; large number of corps where found, and yet there were still many people missing. The only way to facilitate the fastidious situation was to grapple with the problem, hope for no more damage, and simply wait.

While the Japanese felt a pang of desperation, the waves that were formed by the tsunami travelled 4,000 miles at a high speed all the way to the pacific coast approaching Hawaii.

Go Ask Alice - Book Review

Go ask Alice written by an anonymous author, is a memoir that takes us in a journey of Alice's calamitous world of drugs, the consequences, and her struggles to get out of it. Even if the first purpose of the entries weren't for a book, it gives vivid descriptions of experiences and thoughts. It's a novel in which it makes the reader understand the depth of the situation and connect with the character. The title drags you in because it is basically telling to go to Alice, after all that she's been through, and it's interesting because in the whole novel her name is not mentioned but you know her name for the title.

This epistolary memoir, dived into two diaries -- one was for her old life, and the second was for her renewed self-- shows the life of fifteen year old Alice.

She comes to realize after her awful experiences that drugs don't bring anything good with them, but she might have realized that in a point that there wasn't any option to go back, or even cover her past. She grew up in a loving family, but always had a non satisfying hole with her. She never had some one to be sure to rely on, and that made her emotionally weak trying to take an opportunity that passed her by. Because of this she trusted the wrong people, and got to the wrong places. Alice went through a lot in a period of one year, and went into the darkest places, came into the light, yet she came back there.

This roller coaster ride of the horrors of addiction, takes you in the ride to know the memoirist and emotionally attach to to her. It's a book in which you would want to never stop. You read her diary, enter her world, and never forget her.

Lines I loved:

"All the dumb, idiot kids who think they are only chipping are in reality just existing from one experience to the other. After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs. It's a plodding, colorless, dissonant bare existence. it stinks. And I'm glad I'm back. Glad! Glad! Glad! I've never had it better that I had it last night." p. 97

What I Believe

I believe that life is like coming in and out of tunnels;
it may be narrow,
long,
and even dark,
but at some point we break up to the light.

I believe that your day depends on which foot you get up with.

I believe that the sun set
isn't ending,
but begining to a night
ushered in by the light of the stars.

I believe that you should give love,
to get love.

I believe in the cleansing effect of the summer rains.

I believe you should live
a living,
and loving
life.

I believe in the power of will;
if you think you can,
go ahead.

I believe that there's a certain point
in which you have to risk it all
be silly
and just enjoy.

I believe that your believes are your core...
And that you should never
ever
stop believing.

3 word short

Year 2311, time where population had grown 500 times more in a couple of centuries, where there was barely any nature, and water was everyone's biggest and most wanted privilege. A year where "nation" and "unity" didn't appear in the electronic dictionary, but only in the few old dictionary copies that english professor had left to their grand children...

The world was a dissapointment, not how everyone from the past would have thought about it.

After the rebelion, America was left in a state of anarchy for the last century loosing all contact with other continents. Leaving rukus everywhere, and crazy people trying to control themselves.

Obviously many groups of powerfull people had conspire to what they called "great plans to conquer the Americas", but as you might guess... FAILED. It was fail after fail with more disaster in each one. But no one ever understood, each generation of man kind was more stupid than the previous one.

America was a mess, burned places, fire here and there, random people running from side to side looking for food and water.

One day, unexpectedly, when everyone was tired of conspiring to conquer America, an Asian emperor from a small country that no one knew about, came with the purpose that many people wanted to accomplish long ago.

So he went around on his llama, and apprehended people and sent them to a jail that he had built. And little by little he cleared up everything, and he and his llama conquered the Americas.

4 word short- The Secret

It was easy. Easy to assimilate her into society, but no one ever wondered about the consequences...

The new girl was good news to the town. It was surprising that someone so young and pretty would move to a small town like that. Everyone was glad that there was a new face, something that changed the every day life that they were used to.

This girl was apparently nicer and better than the others, it was easy to notice. Some girls wanted to be their friends, some wanted to be like her, and others envied her for her perfectness.

Every morning she would pick up trash at the park, feed the birds, and help the elders, always with a smile in her face. The mayor never got tired of thanking her, soon enough it felt as if she had been lionized.

People were amazed, but others started to feel suspicious.... It was really weird for some like her, so young and with lots of possibilities, not be in some place else. So one day, when this girl was meticulously fixing the garden, a group of girls conspired to get into her house and try to find something suspicious.

Unfortunately, they did. Some stuff that they never expected. Turns out they found many articled a murder in Texas, and some weapons. These girls were shocked, they couldn't believe it. They obviously went to tell everybody. And everyone was shocked as well, dissension over powered and rumors started.

For being such a small town, the rumors obviously were heard by this girl, she was expressionless. People were taking it the wrong way!

So she gathered everyone and told them the truth...

Although she felt betrayed and hurt, she told the town that she lived in a bad neighborhood in Texas... And all her family had been killed when a group of crazy people entered her house when they were all there. She was the only one who survived. Very disturbed she decided to move to this small town that she had heard of just to start from cero. Tears runned through faces, and feeling guilty for the rumors the people from this town proposed to each other that they would give this girl what she wanted: a new beginning.