Sunday, January 29, 2006 x 2:36:00 AM

In the train today, I realize how much we, young adults have lost our innocence.

I mean, look at us.


Our minds… raped of its every virtue.

Our eyes gorged of its every true beauty. (The beauty within)

Our tongue speaks of no truth.

Our ears perceive each lie to be genuine.

Our nose refuses to distinguish the foul.

Our tongue speaks of no truth.

Our skin soiled by each dirty action.


We have lost it.

As my darling sister stood crying, I sat down on the dirty flooring of the MRT.

Tears rolled down her once-rouged cheeks...

And by our sides were two young ones.


My right an infant nestled in her stroller.

My left is a toddler safe in the arms of his mother.

Their eyes locked.

Their smiles met.

Their sparkling baby teeth emerge.

Their youthful hands found a new action.

Waves exchanged.

Laughter galore.


We were between a newly-found friendship, created by two innocent beings.

They know no sadness...

They know no deprivation…

They know nothing of what is to come…