1) Lisa's Song - Taiwan (Epistle & Poetry) (From Songs From The Women Of The L.O.M.) Poem by Otradom Pelogo

Lisa's Song

Lisa, I met on my first stop to Dubai, UAE; though she said that she was originally from Taiwan; incredibly attractive, fun and for some reason, more reserved, though reasons I had not asked, but was even more assured that it was much more complicated than she cared to reveal at that particular moment. I asked her to marry me and I could feel her mind, heart and soul, trying and trying not to put it all together, yet she met my proposal with a bold attempt of saying 'when', though to a conversation that, because of those reasons surreptitiously, though I'm sure, piously hidden, wasn't brought up again, even after several times of seeing her, even at her request. For the next that time I saw her, we had coincidentally met at a small café, where we were the only two sitting there; a waitress stood close by and catered to our order, while a bartender stood just as close making sure that whatever we desired was hurriedly tended to; soft music in the background, in a softly lit room that created a romantic aura for the event of two people meeting for a second time after having shared a wonderful previous evening.

She invited me to her apartment and showed me some of the things that she had bought, not with money, but with the gift that came from spending a nice and pleasant evening with someone. I had taken a video of her our first night together; playing with a new toy I had just bought. There was one of the European modeling / designer shows on, and she pretended to walk as if she was one of the models on stage, while I pretended to direct her, as if I were the photographer; ironically I was literally trying to get her to do one thing, when she was trying to do something else; it couldn't have been more original on the first try in a million years. And after looking at it on the video once getting back, I did take it, as we portrayed it that night, added the sensuous music of the imagination and made it the end of my leading characters love scene; it lasts all night, as they lay on the bed, holding one another, while fully dressed, until morning.


As we progress, the world we live in of course becomes
more complicated, and simultaneously causing its people to
become more diversified. With the technology in
communications, global investments, necessities, and even the
demand for recreation, all barriers have virtually been taken
down. Culture is no longer considered foreign, but interesting; an
incentive to travel, talk, share lives that would have never met
only ten or twenty years ago.

But unlike countries, there are not as many and urgent
demands that cause individuals to communicate and work
together on a continuous basis. There are no laws that say even
neighbors must work or communicate together, and very few
consequences if they don't, unless there are direct or even indirect
threats to their way of life; the latter receiving less attention
unless incentives are applied and information is formally
distributed.

It is rare when these positions are reversed, when
relationships of nations depend on a small group of people and
how diplomatic they are between one another, especially when
they don't know it. But given that knowledge, even gradually, a
difference will occur. But usually enlightenment costs very little
and produces great rewards, unless we must be urgently though
discretely told and admonished by those who believe we should
have already reached a certain stage of diplomacy and
cooperation. Whose existence depends how we progress, and
whose methods transcend all morals and cultures to get our
attention, but with the basic knowledge that if you enlighten the
people, they will make the right decisions.

'Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of
body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day'
(Thomas Jefferson)

Billy's room
Lisa - Take this dream as a prudent omen
Trinity - That washes the land but not its sin
Milana - Whether it be promised or prophecy
Lela - If you can reach your own destiny

Jacquelyn's room
Yvette - Like a storm cloud in hot weather
Maya - Since the worst only makes us work together
Heather - Our past you have the power to create
Kathy - One that's welcomed without debate

Billy's room
Lisa - Time has given you all you need
Trinity - Though it must be watered like a seed
Milana - It can be quite light to carry
Anastasia - Or it can resurrect or it can bury

Jacquelyn's room
Yvette - And a million years for us to agree
Maya - And nurture like a child of society
Rita - Wonders discrete and wonders that are plain
Kathy - Those things which enlighten and entertain.

Billy's room
Lisa - Today has already brought to you
Trinity - If with empathy you try to see through
Milana - Although you all were chosen at random
Lela - To add to it more virtue and wisdom

Jacquelyn's room
Maya - Just to give our world a second chance
Heather - That you will simply find at the dance
Kathy - To believe that you have so great a power
Yvette - Not in a million years, but one hour
Lela - The first sign you'll see will be too great
Lisa - To cause the world to cooperate

(All at once)
The only time you must be formal
Is when the heart and mind
goes back to normal