
Panglao sand at dawn
Sugar Walk
Crisp white linen shorts
Candles lit
Citron air wafting
Early drops of dew
Rising sun
Vast blue, gold soaked sky
Frogs croaking
Jasmine-coiled trellis
Lizzy and Thelma
Gabe and Troy
Ave Maria
by Guonod
Hands held together
Cupid’s hammock sway
This moment
The unions of souls
A blessing
Common bonds of love
Pride twelve years ago
Troy cursed Gabe
He dances with Troy’s date
Greenish peeve
Death stares and hissing
Lizzy lived afar
Met Thelma
Online through Gabrielle
Arrows naught
Cupid with laptop
A chance encounter
Club Eros
Troy blew air behind
Gabe groped back
Then it all began
The cuts on Gabe’s wrists
Those forced smiles
Questions unanswered
The truth hurt
Troy left in haste, pained
Lizzy sends money
For nursing
A small store to earn
A hovel
Is all Thelma lives
Gabe contemplating
One last slash
Troy texted to meet
Blood trickled
Troy found him heaving
Thelma was broadsided
By a bus
Liz flew to find her
Needing blood
Lizzy kissed Thelma
Gabe passed the white gates
He was stopped
Thelma followed suit
But fell back
Not yet, someone said
So now, dry those tears
Sink on sand
Reception and life
Awaits here
White clouds looked happy
All Rights Reserved © joegasparauthor 2023