Saturday Night is Also Lonely (by Lamberto G. Ceballos; published in Home Life July 1999)

Saturday Night is Also Lonely

(by Lamberto G.Ceballos; published in Home Life July 1999)

The office chores have already been put away

Inside cold steel cabinets.

On the street I am now a stranger

To nondescript faces from nowhere

Only to be gone in the midst

Of interweaving scenes of light

And shadows.

How lonely the hours of one who wlaks alone,

Who feels the pain of a friend's absence.

Here in this KTV bar they don't care

And don't really know if a song is sung

In pain as a love of long ago did

Under a golden moon after losing his bride.

You're not here, my friend,

And I cannot flee from the drowning

Loneliness even when beer mugs clink

In the dimly lit room that engulfs me.

On the sill of my silence

My heart becomes a wounded bluebird

Poised to fly home.

RESPONSES:

from: Ning Trinidad
GSIS, Tuguegarao 3500
Cagayan

Office, Friday July 9, 1999 3:05 p.m. - breaktime

Sitting all alone at my table, eating my ginatan and juice... I came across your eye catching title "... Is Also Lonely."  I was thinking of going out on Saturday, by myself (as always) - on a bar - enjoying the music and at least two shots of Bailey's, then off to my bed at 10:00pm. Yeah, you were right... INDEED, "SATURDAY NIGHT IS ALSO LONELY."


from: Vladimir Lucero
DMMA Tigatto Road
Buhangin 8000 Davao city

Lamberto, my friend: Yours is a masterpiece created to touch my heart. -- from a NEW FRIEND Vladimir