I Screamed Your Name Over Hills

Now I’m back to my usual life 1382 kilometers away from you,

Suddenly came in me my travel up north last December…

That moment when my throat’s resonator was finally freed

And with resting souls in hanging coffins as my witnesses

I screamed your name over hills…

Hoping you to hear it

Wishing you to listen

But response was none

And Echo Valley brought back my voice to me.

I wondered more of how love could be as desperate

Of how I could be just satisfied

Asking the other to just let me love

And oh, how illogical it is to not expect to be loved

But still continue feeling enormous, unstoppable pain…

A kind of pain that made me run as fast as I could

So that there’ll be a hoax reason for intense heartbeats.

And yeah, I screamed your name beneath the Earth

Spelunking Sagada’s Sumaguing Cave with thoughts of you

With each slippery path the crawling continues

Just like love. Alright, just like love…

That no matter how precarious

Still the spirit is willing to stride

Up and down, the risks endured

Arriving at that awe-feeling--- I survived, or did I survive?

And I recalled the victory in a special way

Glancing at the pictures taken, reminiscing happy and testing moments

Just like love.

Trekking I went and you also followed…

And wondered why my heart is still not exhausted of your memories

How can you do that? To be here though you are not here…

Searching for reasons but couldn’t find

And so I just screamed your name over hills again and again,

And then looked up to heaven and be hopeful

That the next time for love to come

I won’t fall apart

I’ll just fly.

The Hanging Coffins and the Echo Valley