Of Black and Gray

Of Black and Gray

People who hurt me
They know not much
Of what I feel… this loneliness
And the angst of deeper side still
They make me feel alone and the worse,
inutile
For what am I worth not more than a dime
The futility of every giving
Is but a true attestation
What then can be my greatest asset
I have none… no more
How can they forsake me?
Make me feel as if they have left
Yet even their darkest shadows are clear
In those walls… that wall
That divides me with them.

by : lemskie

http://www.thoughtsandscribbles.wordpress.com

The picture below is a stone ladder at Fort San Pedro, Cebu Philippines... I was with my friends taking a tour at one of the oldest places here in Cebu when an angle caught my eye. I thought it would be a good subject for my photography collection. Let me tell you more about Fort San Pedro:

It is the smallest, oldest triangular bastion fort in the country. It was built in 1738 to repel Muslim raiders. It also served as a stronghold for Filipino revolutionaries. This was considered as the nucleus of the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. It has a total inside area of 2,2025 sq. Meters. The walls are 20 feet high, 8 feet thick and the towers are 30 feet high from the ground level. Work first started on May 8, 1565 with MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEGASPI breaking the ground. After the battle of Manila Bay, Commodore George Dewey turned the fort to the local Cebuanos; then it became an American Warwick Barracks during the American Regime which was later converted into classrooms where the Cebuanos received formal education.

During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, it served as fortification for Japanese soldiers, when the battle for liberation was fought, the fort served as an army camp. After 1950, Cebu Garden Club took over and fixed the inner court into a miniature garden. For a couple of years it also housed the Cebu City Zoo. In 1978 to August 15, 1993, it housed the offices of the Department of Tourism and Philippine Tourism Authority. At present, it is under the care and administration of the National Museum, a historical park.

Cebu has a lot to brag. If you happen to visit the Philippines, do drop by at the Queen City of the South.

http://living.cebunetwork.com/

I love photography. I started engaging myself into it few years back while i was in college. I had quite a number of pixie collection...unfortunately i stopped because my camera got busted when a friend borrowed it and threw it in the swimming pool... I have forgiven him though.

Found above is one of my artworks. Do you know where that is? hehehe... I'll tell you more about it on my next post...

*pixie - picture

All of us are travelers in a journey called “Life”, having different roads to take. We are given the freedom and the resources needed for the entire journey. However, its success depends on how we deal with the variety of consequences that come along the way.

I have been trekking for years now, 25 to be exact. I trudged on through so many kinds of roads. All of those had different impact on me which taught me how to survive the tests of life. I may not have passed some of them but the failures I made became my motivation to move forward and go on with my journey. And while doing so, I’m making sure that I will have a better understanding of the real essence of what they call “LIFE”. To understand means to take a risk that can’t be attained by merely gazing at life’s overview. You have to go deeper and never give up on all of its challenges.

So then I chose an old and narrow road where thorny vines grew…stones and pebbles alike were scattered all over…holes run from the smallest size to the big ones…and even traps exist in that deserted road. I even asked God why I was permitted to experience those adventures…Simply because I chose to live the hard way. I haven’t reached my destination yet, I’m way too far…but the places I’ve visited have molded me to become who I am now.