Love starts
as a drop
of water.
It stays still
until it gathers
more of itself
to flow, to gush,
to become a force
that no dam can contain.
You are a body
of water.
Love will claim
every inch of you, too.
It is pointless to resist its rapids.
(Even time stood witness
on how the tallest of mountains
have lowered their bodies
before the crashing waves of
untamable oceans.)
Love submerges,
drowns us deep,
but it is the same thing
that keeps us
afloat.
Koko is a BSED-English graduate Ateneo de Davao University. He teaches in a public school in Davao City.