"Traps laid by traps"

 "Traps laid by traps"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I

Awakened now from a slumber

A painted reality far from real

Of things eternally in conflict

Where peace was the fleeting dream

II

Yet I have began to question

Things that were shown

I have began to answer

with a voice of my own

III

Where the shifting sands

draw us in forever motion

towards things that we cannot fathom

And yet hope to fathom

IV

Awakened now and less awakened

For the reality I thought existed

Was from a fevered mind

One that I myself created.

Quezon City, January 22, 2026. 4:35am

"Beyond the Blank"

"Beyond the Blank"

by:

Virgilio F. D leon Jr.MD

I

And so I stand again

before this blank canvass

And where I saw possibilities

Now only nothingness remains

II

And of the countless worlds

And infinite choices

Reduced to a handful

but a handful that maters

III

And so I start to shape

where the choices have fallen

where the echoes of a future

lay bare as does it often

IV

To where I look 

and where the things that can happen

will happen and happen

A possibility available from this blank canvass

Quezon City, January 22, 2026. 4:21am