Rainbow

Yes, I am for Unity

Yes, I am for Equality

I am also for Diversity

Not for Singularity

Nor for Monotony

For beauty lies in Autonomy

How would a rainbow look like,

When all it have is but

One color, One shade?

No boundaries, where colors can separate but blend,

Blend into different shades and hues

Even a black and white photograph

Has its different shades and hue

Yet our minds are set

Between one not even two.

For two will make us choose, be IN or OUT

And OUT will always be wrong

Because IN is always right.

And Tolerance does not mean Respect

Just waiting to prove the other Weak.

We see only what we want to see

We understand what we only want

We believe only what is beneficial

Others are blind or lying false.

How I envy the unschooled beasts

They have territories, yet respect boundaries

They do not attack, unless hungry

Knowing not of greed, nor hatred

How I envy the rainbow in the sky

Brightly shining after after cold dark storm

No color, but the sun makes it beautiful

Neither clashing, nor overlapping.

Nature is harsh but it has its rule

Diversity so to balance its growth

Yet we are smarter than Nature

We control, change and destroy

Rules made by Nature, we can overcome

Because we are smarter than Nature.

And rainbows are just part of foolish nature.

Vengeance

Once I donned the perfume of the innocent

Thinking it will shield me from evil’s intent

Yet when you recognized the purity scent

You came and tore down my peaceful tent

Your claw hands my virginal gown did rent

My mind to your devious wishes force bent

My soul to hell’s sulphuric kingdom sent

And my sanity to Limbo’s voidness went

I came back and wore the musk of the beast

My turn to bring havoc to the west and east

I watched as the hyenas and buzzards feast

For the past I know I should not care the least

But why instead of success I feel pains of defeat

Why do I feel numb from head down to my feet

Why have my heart and pulse end their beat

Ashes poured on my head and in the mud I seat

I am the victim but where is the sense of justice

I had my vengeance but where is my peace

All debts been collected yet trouble won’t cease

Tell me God Above, what did my spirit miss?

Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa was born January 14, 1965, in Manila Philippines. She has worked as a retired Language Instructor, interpreter, caregiver, secretary, product promotion employee, and private therapeutic masseur. Her works have been published as poems and short story anthologies in several language translations for e-magazines, monthly magazines, and books; poems for cause anthologies in a Zimbabwean newspaper; a feature article in a Philippine newspaper; and had her works posted on different poetry web and blog sites. She has been writing poems since childhood but started on Facebook only in 2014. For her, Poetry is life and life is poetry.

Lilian Kunimasa considers herself a student/teacher with the duty to learn, inspire, guide, and motivate others to contribute to changing what is seen as normal into a better world than when she steps into it. She has always considered life as an endless journey, searching for new goals, and challenges and how she can in small ways make a difference in every path she takes. She sees humanity as one family where each one must support the other and considers poets as a voice for Truth in pursuit of Equality and proper Stewardship of nature despite the hindrances of distorted information and traditions.