Vignette # 3

I’m the Mary you see lurking at night

The clock strikes 12, I’m alive wearing white.

Near this creepy tree at Balete Drive

Tis quiet here but when the full moon comes

The door between two worlds open for us

Who lost our lives to run free but tethered

By an unseen leash that held us earthward

Fate had other plans for me, I suppose

The man I was going to elope with

Asked me to wear white, meet him at the tree

Someone hid behind it as I waited

And struck me hard with a long knife and ran

I wafted above my skin for a man

When you suddenly leave this world, you try

To latch on to the closest living thing

Your soul could find so I clung on that tree

Why Father? I didn’t deserve to die

I had a life, pakshet, sonovabitch!

Fine, I will go scare people and be a witch!

The bitch who killed me was someone I knew

A so-called friend who seduced my husband

Curse her! Curse him! I hope they rot in hell!

Then she walked by the tree drunk and alone

I appeared and screamed at her to the bone!

Mama came to see me bearing sad news

The prick who jilted me sold all my stuff

And left the children at the orphanage

Ooo. . . if I could only wring his damn neck

He will never have another pekpek*

To my surprise, the bastard stood outside

The tree waiting for me, to say goodbye

I asked where in the world he was going

To Hell! He said. It was all his doing

What? He goes to hell while I am stuck here?

He apologized, asked forgiveness from me

His mistress, my killer, choked him to death

When he bitched at her for having bad breath

Well, isn’t Karma just appropriate?

Thanks for abandoning me, Dear Father

I am destined to wear white forever!

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