Emotional Circle

Laughing out loud
crying in silence
Repressed emotions
trying hard not to cause
a commotion...

Tears in your eyes
Pain in my heart
Nerves of steel
pretending nothing
is real...

Dying hopes
Wasted ambitions
Losing one's soul
in the whirlwind
of corroded
minds of
the people of the lie.

A sure ticket
to eternal
damnation.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer/ YOU Section/ January 2004