The force of fate couldn’t fight for us.
Venus showed me the way to you
just as I pointed her and the Moon
for you to gaze.
He smiled down on us, mocking
with his crescent lips, whitened teeth.
Time runs back
as our shared memories.
Michelle Andres
Michelle Andres is a Creative Writing student at the University of Santo Tomas. Her poetry collection A to B has won first place in the poetry category in the 39th Gawad Ustetika.
