Dreamy Youth Gone Wrong

By Anne Katrine Gonzales

(Footnote to the Youth)

Feeling like one of those in fairytales

Where young love is all that matters

I didn’t think of anything else

But a future with him, I answered, “Yes”

Those gazes that we fail to perceived,

It’s helpless and strange and were put to veil

Those objections that can never be concede

All because youth and love must prevail

Years and years and I writhe in pain

As little Dodongs, little Teangs came

It is too much but i did not complain

He made my life ugly, still, he’s my flame

From the reflection of his eyes

I saw myself young, thin, and shapeless,

Doing unripe duties in a silent cries

I saw him filled with guilt and regrets

From those young sweet dream

To this unprepared maternity

I should have said, “No” to him

I should have chose not to marry

Countless time of wishing wistfully

Desperate times asking for relief

Now this is what life had to offer me

From picking a dreamy choice in a swift