I Am Buraot

I’m tired. Tired of all the games we people play. They bug you and then ask you if you’re okay. Then you give them hugs and kisses to tell them yes, you are okay. But you know deep inside you’re not but hey, you’re not supposed to tell. Because if you do, it would just [...]

As we walk in the town square hand in hand, I could see my father’s face beaming with joy. I think I was around four, maybe even less. I was wearing this shirt tailored to look exactly like  his. I could hardly remember the details but it reminded me of pineapples because of its color [...]

I am back in the shadows of my former elusive self. Dazed and confused as what lies before me and the future of my galactic awakening. The bright sunny days are like omens of what’s up ahead. Down with jitters and fears and doubts is the constant route. I fear that these challenges to prove [...]

I am traveling back to the outer edges of the Milky Way. As ancient as I had been, the century-old warp speed is no longer working. The real Spock who had the audacity to create such have gone and came back to Vulcan. And the parallel universe I have come to confused myself with is [...]

I was driving on this road to nowhere. I was passing through more than just the places and faces of people I met, oftentimes I get lucky enough to know them, to be with them, be them. I was born from the country. Small town, big family, rough life. You know the story, short in [...]

Since there are lots of places I have lived my entire life, I naturally have a lot of friends. Friends that over the years have remained my buddies, my brother, my sister. I am so lucky to have found them, and I thank them all. I am not trying to be optimistic here about friendship. [...]

This year comes as a new dawn, the beginning not just of a new year, but of a new life. But as always, not without the remnants of the baggage past. This time last year I was in and out of the hospital. Teams of doctors were trying to figure out what is that thing [...]