Tag Archives: Regrets
The Days You’d Waited at the Stations…for Me
A daughter, who’s been, estranged from her father too long, and, it’d finally dawned on her, that her father, loved her so, but it was, too late, he’d, passed away, translated… My mother called, told me, that the newest station … Continue reading
The Cries of the Elderly Filipino Woman
All the trials of her life could’ve been spared, had she not falsely believed that a better life awaits her in Taiwan, the tragedies that plagued this migrant’s life, translated… As a reporter for the advocacy of the rights of … Continue reading
Her Eldest Sister Who’d Died Young Was a Victim of Rape
On living with the guilt of a loved one being raped, a Q&A, translated… Q: My Mother’s Deep, Dark Secret I received an aging woman’s letter, said that her mother is already ninety-three years old, bedridden for long, knowing that … Continue reading
A Woman Sat on tA Woman Sat on the Rails and Took Her Own Selfie, Fell to Her Death in Front of Her Husbandhe Rails and Took Her Own Selfie, Fell to Her Death in Front of Her Husband
An accidental death, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The Family of Three Took a Road Trip, Her Husband Asked Her Then, “Do You Want Me to Take Your Picture”, Because the Fifty-Year-Old Woman Wanted to Get a Good … Continue reading
Listening, a Poem
Translated… There Came, the Coughs of a Field Maple Outside My Windows And Perhaps, it’s a Hymn Sung by the Leaves, Mourning Their Deaths Suddenly, I Hear the hands of time will keep on turning, nonstop! Not my photo… The … Continue reading
Let Me Stand Beside You, Words I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say
The trials of life, ended in death, translated… It was, the holidays of the nation’s birth one year, and, silence took over the ride from the bank, about to repossess our home back home. Toward this trip that’s about to … Continue reading
His Shot at Redemption…
He’d kept, this, deep, dark secret inside of his conscience, for so many years now, and, each and every night, it’d come back, to gnaw on him… And, his shot at redemption came, when he was asked, to testify in … Continue reading
Not Getting to See Her, Living Her Dreams
The woes, or rather, you HAD it comin’ daddies, of an absentee father!!! Not getting to see her, living her dreams, I’d been, casted out of her life, by her mother, since I’d cheated on her mother a long, long, … Continue reading