Kaban ni Maghuhukom Ric S. Bastasa: DILI GAYUD SAYON

IT WAS NEVER EASY, NEVER

the way we do things

may look easy. For instance painting

or doing a portrait may simply be a

stroke of the brush, a tapping of color here and

there

or to a woman baking a cake, it could simply

be a mixing of one ingredient to another

putting them in a molder, turning on the oven,

waiting, and then

you have a cake for everybody

or writing a novel or a poem or your biography,

it is just a scribbling of words, putting them on paper,

spontaneously not event thinking what next to write

and then putting a finish to the work

the children will be amazed and they will do the same

and when they grow up to be like us

they too will also amaze us without end

until we reach the point of dying

as easy as that

just closing your eyes and then not waking up anymore

but before that

you write a note, or perhaps on your last breath you

whisper to your confidante

" it was never easy, never".

And the confidante

knows that too, but he will never tell.

with all these concealment, the song will go on

Life is beautiful. This world is a wonder.

Death is nothing but sleep.

Am i not right, after all?

(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat sa garay nga si Maghuhukom RIC S. BASTASA. Usa siya ka Maghuhukom nga mahigugmaong mosulat, mopaambit ug manghatag sa iyang nahibaloan pinaagi sa kabatid niyang manulat. Dili siya makapugong matag higayon nga mogilok ang iyang mga kamot sa pagtagik ug mga garay nga dayag kaayong kakutloan ug mga unod nga ikabalon sa alimpatakan. )