Litratong Pinoy: PUSO (Heart)

Ilang minuto makalipas ang hatinggabi, naglalakad kami sa Kungsgatan sa kalagitnaan ng Stockholm. Tahimik ang mga lansangan, maliban sa panaka-nakang sasakyan. Wala halos naglalakad maliban sa amin- tatlong Pinoy at isang Tanzanian. Sa palibot ng aming hotel, naroon pala ang malaking bahagdan ng mga taga-Stockholm- nasa mga disco at club na pa-morningan.

Ang puso sa larawan na ito ay hindi madaling makita. Alam mong nandyan sya dahil sumusunod ako sa tema. Pero parang natatabunan sya ng kung ano sa kanyang paligid.

Parang ganun din ang tao at pag-ibig. Alam mong dahil tao sya, mayroon syang kakayahang umibig at karapat-dapat syang ibigin. Nguni't maraming pagkakataon, nasa harap na natin sya, pinalalagpas pa natin ang pagkakataong umibig at ibigin...

Anu't ano pa man, ang kuha ko ay bahagyang malabo dahil nagloloko ang kamera ko. Hindi rin nakakatulong na kagagaling lang namin sa Absolut IceBar at syempre... *hik*

PUSO = HEART Minutes after midnight struck, we were walking along Kungsgatan in Stockholm. Not a creature stirred, except for the occasional driver behind the wheel, and us four stragglers- 3 Filipinos and a Tanzanian. We found were the Swedes were hiding, in the bars and clubs that surrounded our hotel which remained open until a littel after the sun rose.

The heart in this photo is not that easy to see. You know there's a heart in the photo since it is this week's theme; there's just a bit of a haze from all that surrounds it. Which is not unlike love. It's often *there*, in front of us, the opportunity and personification of love, but the clouds in our environment get in the way- the chance to love and be loved...

ANYWAY, this photo is a bit blurry because my camera got sick en route to Sweden. It likewise doesn't contribute, the fact that we just had a few drinks in the Absolut IceBar earlier that evening... 8-p

Stockholm, September 2007, using a digicam.