Hard but real and raw.

Side by side and living on top

of the dead.

Copulating,

and try to survive

daily with their families.

Their child plays with human bones

as toys.

And they sleep inside

mausoleums as houses.

Actually sleeping

on the coffins as beds.

Its free accommodation

for some

and caretaker jobs

for others.

Sprawled over 133 acres,

of the Manila North.

A cemetery is one

of the Philippines'

largest burial grounds

and this is where the

country's presidents,

film stars

and literary greats

are laid to rest.

on the mountains of coffins,

tombs and ostentatious mausoleums.

That scatter across this vast land.

This is the home to many.

Who feel safer living there

then in the crime-ridden shanty towns

nearby.

Some have carved out jobs.

Making coffins or gravestones

and selling flowers

to the daily mourners

who arrive to pay their respects.

This is their way of life.

They even have makeshift electricity

wired up. Also, shops selling cigarettes,

food and snacks.

Life is never boring here.

Hard but real and raw.

 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sounds like Romeo talking to Juliet (when he thinks she is dead) and how he is going to make his home, with worms...
life is real and raw...and some have nothing else to look forward to, but surviving...

j.

[Onlyme]

Exactly Jacob. some humans in this world. Just don't realize or understand how different it's for others on this same planet. No Ivory towers and money and fancy cars and expensive foods and luxury do they dwell inside. Thanks for your thoughts Jacob. Cheers. Dawn.