I write all my marrow-deep desires
in a tender list, cast it into
a prayer, a super-condensed,
nuclear hope, ready
to welcome me—once truly
answered—as a surprise,
in a gentle, slow gust,
an anti-explosion, in a big
crunch, towards the singularity,
that is me, like a hug, in the warping
of matter around the Maker’s cosmic
finger as They tap
on the wishes that I held
inside my clasped palms,
like the first nucleus, to reveal
the grandest evanescence,
that is
this life.
James Bryan Galagate Delgado is a fourth-year Medical Biology student at Mapúa Malayan Colleges Mindanao. He is also a fellow of the 2018 ADDU Summer Writers Workshop and the 2025 Davao Writers Workshop.