its own, sand would have gathered there.
It's all the same. You've
to feel it in your gut. the law
of sympathy: that which rhymes
with something else times
[Fort Santiago, which used]
[to, in the Spanish Era, watch the mouth]
[air that watches the sea, Mall]
[of Asia. variegiated wall]
In the time before you, that
was how it was. And that is my problem.
let me forget. I was here before your father
and his ancestors found this place.
I was one of the lucky ones. It
to breathe air. It allowed me
to walk on land. It gave me legs.
[like thunder underwater.]
[of pregnant globes of rain]
that, would mean, to feel its waves
through my fins, millions of bones in my flesh, and oh,
♪ Saan ka man ♪
to no longer recall the passing
♪ naroroon ngayon ♪
of wave after wave of
♪ Kaytagal mo nang nawala ♪
bodies. But all that is silly.
♪ Babalik at babalik ka rin. ♪
I will not survive these waters.