Contracts Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

Contracts

It was unlike any of these dubuios contract, drawn with the heavens,

Unconscious when the first lights gleamed into your eyes and you started to cry

You were puny coming from the dark womb, before the spankings, before the cry,
A mass, ignorant mass of infant flesh dependedfirst with these mentors, father, mother, more friends, other best friends, after your own siblings,

Sisters who teases you, cheat you at games,
But maturityprevailed too soon and you were given a brotherly love and a sisterly affections,
They were all the mentors that you ever needed after a college degree, your first job,
Your first puberty, first lost of virginity,

After then you became a father yourself the firstborn

Your signature attest to your own volitions,

Now a part of you renegades,
Now a partwants another contract,

This unfinished house needs refurbishing,
Your loving wife needs more attended devotion,
As ever before your daughters had her debut after college,
When at every midtermyou rushed to pay their tuitions with credit cards,

Now for the first time in life you want your vacations, but not in the heavens,

Not in a pending disease of a cargo,
Your sickened body needs more health care,
Not in an expected hoard be be stored in a casket.