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WATER 
(for B.)
by Danton Remoto

For you, my lover, I will be like water.
I will be Lock Lomond flowing
in loneliness from Ardlui to Arden.

I will be the Falls of Dochart hurling itself
down the hills of Breadalbane,
the rocks rumbling with my cascading force

I will be the rain, slanting
over Stirling in needles tiny as pores.
I will be snowflakes drifting

From the Orkney to the Isle of Skye,
falling in silent fury, as if focusing themselves
in the cold eye of memory.

For you, my lover, I will be like water.
 
 

Danton Remoto is an Associate Professor at the Ateneo de Manila University. He is also the Business and Marketing Manager of the Ateneo's Office of Research and Publications. He has been published in New York (BOMB) and in Paris (Frank), as well as in the Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His poems have won in the Galian sa Arte at Tula, Philippine Literary Arts Council, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Stirling District Arts Council, and Procyon Prize. His featured poem "Water" appears in his recently launched book Skin Voices Faces (pictured above) published by the Office of  Research and Publications, ADMU.