Wild in winds

The caressing shades of the many valleys,
deeply interspersed with the untamed
and the broken, 
have nurtured your flowers 
unreservedly, like a violent tropical storm
in a barren and desolate place.
Those huge petals and its wild dances,
remarking a crimson splash of deep passion
in a savage land,
as the eastbound wind blows
fiercely;
I have never seen you, since—
(and never will, perhaps)
but I do know you,
you and your passionate petals.
A palpable prose of dancing petals—
Wild in winds.

(kakahalukay lang sa baul nito.
ginawa noong Oktubre 2005)