MIGHTY EMOTIONS
By Melany Amante Mabao Maguindanao
When strong billows of mighty emotions roll up your chest and got stucked in your throat, it unlocked the powerful floodgates causing your tears to flow down like a thousand streams...
inundating the valleys, drowning your hopes, capsizing your dreams.
When your spirit took the plunge in the ocean of deep sorrows...
When frustrations are pushing you down... your whole body feels heavy from the weight of your fears.
When both your feet are tied with the bitterness from the shackles of your indifference...
your energy plummets at a remarkable speed.
When you feel you cannot breath
and you are about to suffocate... darkness surrounds you and death is trying to engulf you.
Suddenly, in your narrowing tunnel vision...
a faint flicker of light muddles through the darkness.
You focused on it...
and slowly through the vast darkness...
the lights grow stronger and stronger...
and then, it reaches you!
The overwhelming brightness is now blinding and that's the time you realized someone by some miracle is saving you.
A strong force seems to pull you up... higher and higher to the surface.
Finally, your head comes out on top of the water...
Strong gust of air enters your lungs and like a newborn, you struggled and throw-up the water from the inside and catch a breath just like the first time.
You put your hands to wipe your face from all the waters and tears.
You slowly openned your eyes and now you see...
I'm drowning!
December 28, 2018
