Things Slip Through
I whisper, “Gavin . . . what is The End?”
He shakes his head wordlessly and looks back out the window.
So I look back at that journal lying there, begging me to read it. And maybe I’ve swallowed this whole thing hook, line and sinker, become tainted by the obsessions of a fractured mind with a skewed perception of reality, but I suddenly realize how appropriate the translation of those strange words is because I feel, somehow, that I’m about to be weighed and measured, and as I finally reach to turn that page to the next story, I wonder, at the end of this . . .
Sikat na Kabanata