[LITERARY] Document (7)

by Tommy

i believe my soulmate is broken

into a million pieces of starlight

and scattered around the world.

so fine,

so brilliant,

that people unknowingly inhale his parts.

and maybe that’s why I find it all too confusing,

how anyone can feel like the one,

as if anyone actually is.

there are people who have so much of him

inside their systems;

so much of him rushing through their veins

that it is ironic how there is so much of you

in a person that is anything but.

i find you in the saddest existences of the most brilliant minds,

i find you in the ugliest hearts of the most beautiful faces,

i find you in the cloudiest thoughts of those who have the clearest intentions,

and i have you inside me,

but i don’t have enough.

not a piece,

not a part,

but an inkling

gradually dissolving into me

and making me forget the existence

i swore to always remember.

so i’ll continue to look inside these strangers

in search of a piece of my lover,

so broken down

and scattered,

that his existence may very well be not just for one person

and not just for me.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Russell Tuazon

In a perpetual state of restlessness, I always seem to have something going on.

I am Russell Thomas Tuazon, this year’s Editor-in-chief and the catalyst of the first-ever online publication in UST Angelicum’s SHS Department. I have always had a knack as well as a penchant for writing. I believe in the power of writing and its ability to verbalize even the most indescribable emotions and situations. And for that, I have grown fond of literature and journalism.

I like to think of myself as headstrong and willful. I believe that sheer will with a little bit of luck can get you places. In reality, however, I am but a spaced-out nuisance of the school with too many goals and too little body fat. Oh, and I also like to perform.

The USTAC Tigercubs has so much potential for such a modest club. But I hope to unlock at least a semblance of this potential through this online publication.

-R.T.