-a homage to Philippine mythology and its vast possibilities to horrify-
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I have nothing else to say to the town
Neither to the vast oceans of people
Whom I lived with since I was but a child;
They who scream loud of these unknown vistas
Of times immemorial to justify
The ritual called killing the unwanted.
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They whisper in secrets among themselves
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To recall ancient texts of prophecies
Which tells the rise of Sitan, death keeper,
From the vast darkness of Kasamaán;
He lurks, waits for the day of his return
To commence in killing the unwanted.
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To stop him from ever returning back
To the realm men ruled over for eons,
Our village pledged to protect the world from
The arrival of Death by offering
People, feeding their blood to the faeries,
Thus they thought of killing the unwanted.
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The weak, the old, the sick, the frail, the lame
All will be offered each time the faeries
Ring the bell twice to signal their hunger,
And if the villagers deny their needs
They will break their barrier against Sitan;
They feed them by killing the unwanted.
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Sometime in the past, my loving mother
Conceived my baby brother, smooth and pale,
But he is sick, his body weak, so frail
And no medicine we know can save him
So we are worried, oh so worried, that
He''ll be part of killing the unwanted.
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So we hid him from the village, we did,
We cared for him in secret ever since;
We would be out like nothing is amiss,
But we would always refuse to attend
Deep in the forest where robed villagers
Offer life by killing the unwanted.
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And as days turned to months, they start to doubt
Our odd family''s constant refusal
To be part of this foul ceremony;
They''d question us about the existence
Of my baby brother dear and why we
Attend not the killing the unwanted.
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My mother answered all the time, peevish
And proclaimed thus that the baby is gone
After a sad, untimely miscarriage;
Saying that her sadness caused her absence
And since then she can''t stand the sight of blood,
She can''t stand them killing the unwanted.
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The people''s questions died soon thereafter
And our lives went swimmingly like before,
While my brother grows stronger and stronger,
Conquering his sickness each step he takes;
But none will know of his life in this world
If they are still killing the unwanted.
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Then one day the faeries ring the bell twice,
But the town hadn''t had time to prepare
So they dragged my mother, pull her hair down;
Elders explained the grief my mother felt
Is naught but sign of weakness thus she was
Subjected to killing the unwanted
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I couldn''t do anything but watch men
Steal my mother dear away from our home;
While they feed the faeries, I feed my wrath!
I ran with my brother and stole a horse
And let their hooves deliver me away
From the twisted killing the unwanted.
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I lit countless matches and throw each stick
In all huts and houses to command fire
And have their burn ravage all that they own
Destroying the town in my fit of rage
Disallowing the chance we''ll be the next
Target of them killing the unwanted.
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It''s been five years since that cursed day end.
I changed my name and my brother as well.
I worked really hard for our survival.
And a testament of this is our health.
We are alive and nothing else mattered.
Not even that killing the unwanted.
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We have forgotten them thus forever
We have never spoken it forever
We have sealed our memories forever
We have been without its fear forever
We have lost what we know of forever.
We don''t need it hopefully forever.
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Soon I heard rumors among friends and peers
About an enigma from far away,
That a mysterious village in the east
Suddenly turned lifeless leaving nothing:
A burned ruin of their former glory
Along the remains of their hidden cult.
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Adding to the mystery is a noise,
Two bells ringing frequently now and then;
None of them knew what happened hitherto,
Raging flame singed the narra all around
Along with a queer structure built to seal
A cavern deep down the once great forest.
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Countless men tried venturing what''s inside,
None of them doth returned from the abyss
Leaving all baffled by its end''s mystiques
And the grandeur of the unknown cavern,
The only thing we know for sure inside
Is a growling noise creeping from within.
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That''s when everything rushes back at me,
All of my hidden, evil memories;
Ones I''ve denied ever since my escape,
Vile rituals I failed telling my brother
And thus I remembered the true reasons
Behind the cruel killing the unwanted.
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I decided I need to face my past
To once and for all remove all my guilt;
I left my brother to a friend and leave
To confront the mistakes I have buried
Deep below the crevices of my brain
To rid us of killing the unwanted.
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I traveled far and wide from the city
To the burned remains of my former town,
And wander in amazement as I gaze
At what I''ve done, the fury of my pique;
I was aback seeing once again the
Sepulcher of killing the unwanted.
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The greens are no more, the soil is barren
All that remains is the blackened ashes
Of my former village, land of my youth,
Land of my despair, land of countless death,
And there I stand to gaze at the cavern,
That started the killing the unwanted.
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I can hear the air scream, darkness around,
The damp stone is the only entryway,
The only entrance through eternal night
For darkness alone is what remains there
And the light of morning unpermitted
To the source of killing the unwanted.
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I went inside with no light and no friend,
Shaking, I feel the end within the bounds
The unknown growls rang forth from deep inside
As I walk through the wet, dark corridor;
There, I''ve finally seen the journey''s end,
So does all of killing the unwanted.
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Creeping in the darkness is Death itself,
Stalking on the stone is the end of all;
All''s damp and cold and cruel and evil--
He who''s in front of me, He who rule us
Has come from the debauched Kasamaán
With a want to killing the unwanted.
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There he lays hiding, consuming, racking,
Until darkness has dominion on all
And everything that remains would be gone;
He stands there, guzzling the radiant faeries,
Their white velvet dress, tinted with their blood,
In Sitan''s mouth: killing the unwanted.
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Thus the radiant and fair-skinned diwata
Are now nothing but livestock to Sitan
For He who''s asleep is alive again;
He grabbed my body with his putrid hand
While his other hand grabs the town''s faeries
Readying to killing the unwanted.
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Sitan chewed the spent head of the faeries,
Glitters spew out as He crushes their skulls
Letting me see clearly how he relieved
The century-old hunger he''s keeping:
First us, then the world; soon his strength returns
And he will devour all the unwanted.