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Sands of Sadness

by Gene de Guzman, Grade School Social Studies Teacher
1-clock-in-sand-x.jpgTime is flux. Everybody knows when and where it stops but it always starts. Distance is the essence of space. Everybody knows its geography and the  endurance it requires. Time and Distance are the best tests of love and in them are stored all the jewels of our passing years. Even our moments of despair and our bitter plaints. Time offers a wondrous privilege which is more than enough to redress our share of mistakes in its peculiar time frame. Distance is a mysterious and inherent provision which brings a person to where he should be and makes him into what he ought to be. The best thing that one should remember in this lifetime is not the happy days but the moments of offenses that one has committed and never had the chance to redeem… It is right there that one can humbly see through the eyes of wisdom the beauty and essence of asking and granting forgiveness.
No man has never  learned and experienced the metamorphosis of life for it is ingrained. We  become inevitably reflective at one moment of our life to address what we fail to do. We can always pray and hope in the light of time and distance. It is never too late and never too far to say what should be said that will build friendship again.
if I could change                           in life those sands               
the days that passed                    of sadness
just like the sands of time           prompt men to bring 
you would find me walking        forgiveness
 on the shore                                  a chance to grant
of life’s unending path                 love’s pardon
                                                        which is very 
i would search and find               rarely found
those listless sands
and pick them one by one           I wish such grief
then wish that they’d be              knits hearts
sands no more                               into a stronger bond
and fill those days with joy          and from a fool man
                                                         wise enough
for man is weak                             such gift of pardon makes
and as he walks                              and in the end you’d realize
sometimes he fails                        it is then that friendship grows. 
along his path
and when he treads
his road through life
he’d miss his guiding star
sometimes its hard 
to understand
why man would then
fall short
and what is really
sadness still
is to make his dear ones
cry
 
 

sherwin f. coronado said,

June 9, 2010 @ 8:16 am

One of the most magnificent aspects of life is that our spirit remain hovering over the moments and spaces where we once luxuriated and revelled in. I am one of those who reminisce such universes notwithstanding either distance or time. I do not allow one single vision disappear with the haze of daily confusion, and it is my perpetual reminiscence of times of yore that causes my anguish and sorrow every so often. But if I’d be given the unique privelege to pick between joy and sorrow, I certainly will not trade the sorrows of my being for all the bliss and ecstasy of humanity.

sherwin coronado said,

June 8, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

Time will be figuratively altered and transformed throughout the various stages of one’s life. Through these transformations of time, we will inevitably change. The ebb and flow of time will advance and set us in motion; it will reveal its nature, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. Mr. de Guzman, time has inspired you to craft this masterful essay and poetry.

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