Focus on My Footprints

to my beloved friends, during this season for remembering those beloved who have gone ahead,
i offer some lines from my long poem MI PRIMERO ADIOS (written in Filipino in December 2006; published in English in 2007):

accord value and attention not to my mortal remains
that are like closhing already put aside by Life.
focus not on my hole-studded shoes with worn-out soles;
ponder instead the footsteps left behind...

---dingz, 10-31-08