by Nathan Chan

Let us praise the silence of hours
Spent sighing. Let’s praise what’s not ours
To have in desiring. Let
The restless rhythm of our days
Be calmed to a summer’s brief delay 
To pray our pains to thirst, yet.

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Nathan Chan is a third-year literature and philosophy student from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He is currently researching for his thesis on the Filipino-American poet Jose Garcia Villa. He is also interested in the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.