"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."
- Chilo

Evening Praises, a true love amazing, friends
On a sand of mellow beach and drums of clouds
Now lovers, no feelings fading from memory or a distant thought

Red birds, no imagination or heartfelt dreams thrown
Across the divide of friendship through distance and time
Dream stolen still real

Yet withstood the test of time and pirated crimes
In sickness and in death unreported
In streams of hope found abundant

These two, now joined in eternity and inseparable
How deep the love persists
As treasure permanently shines
Spread through glory and pain.

The woman, once a child, trusting to simple desires
Now worn by strife and fleeting memories
of time dependent and imprisoned by fate

The boy, now a man, you were not a being created and dependent
Of any moral virtue
By his plan that’s just the way it is, anything you can
Alone in love and passion and no hate
Embrace each other in compassion and truth
To give and take away
Hearts chosen to stay
Of power none can contend

Empty hands in good times and bad,
Unchangeable, unshakable is the love that binds
And never separates
Fingers joined in marriage for eternity
Subtle, absolute, that’s just you are.

Blessed be His Name
To give you and me---
Bird chirps and shouts of Evening Praises
In the darkness of forsaken hope.


Copyright 2007 © by Myles Saulibio