DEATH

Some call it pain, and some call it

The end, but is it?

What lied beyond it?

Beyond the darkness..

That it instills fear?

What secrets lie, that are yet to be told?

Why does man fear it?

What is death,

That the whole world

Seeks to avoid it?

“tis a pathway,

An adventure…

And just like shadows are

The counterpart of sunshine…

Death is merely…

The other side of life.

KAMINDYO

Isinilang niyo kami,

Dugo sa buo naming katawan

Tanda ng aming pagkatali sa inyo.

Na kami’y galling sa inyong mga

Laman

Laman na inyo, ngunit—

Hindi lahat ng pagsunod

Tulad niyo—kami’y may buhay.

            ..kami’y hindi inyo—

            ..kami’y sangkatauhan

Maitatali niyo—aming mga kamay

Ngunit—hindi an gaming isipan

Kami’y mga anak ng lupa,

At kami’y may buhay.

Paghihinagpis walang dahilan

Para sa aming kalayaan

Nais naming umunlad,

Lumaya—dalahin niyo’y ibsan,

Mga ugat nami’y pumipitik

Kami’y may buhay.

Magtiis kung kailangan

Upang patunayan—lumaki kami

Sa bagong bayan—kabataa’y

Di bulag—oo.

Kami’y may buhay.

..kami’y hindi inyo—

            ..kami’y sangkatauhan

COLLAPSING REASON TO LOVE

We’ve been around these circles for quite long time now

We’re trying so hard still we don’t know where to start

This is not just a simple calculus

This love seems ambiguous

The reasons are unknown just like us two

‘coz to you I just don’t have a value

It’s my pain that I always eliminate

But you keep on substituting hate

We keep on building boundaries

Now, we stand on different axes

We’re losing focus and questions left unanswered

This has brought us to confusion

Why can’t we balance this love equation?

I love you but you’re giving me negative reactions

You hit me with a solid blow

This love’s volume we chose not to know

On all angle, in all view I can’t meet you

Time’s turning clockwise

But this love’s height tends not to rise

Why keep this stupid love calculator

When we keep on that life’s damn trial and error

I’m tracing this love in all curves

I want to make an end to this

But I can’t stop…

My love for you is all infinity…

In Aeternum

Looking back at those days...

when it was still my hand that you're holding

when we're still each others company in every way

I just couldn't help but smile with the memories we made

with the treasures we once buried and soon we'll find again

That the way it used to be would be back to ours and we shall keep.

I missed the way each hour would be spent...

just when I realized it...

that by now you must've forgotten

But I stayed and still lingered in my head

everything that you left me in the middle of it all.

Too late for an apology I should say...

this is you that I am talking to,

it's you that I am trying to reach,

Would you accept the last minute you've had?

And I admit it hurts to go and leave you alone

but I have to because it's best.

Take a closer look at everything that has happened...

These are reasons why I must take a step

It was I who made you turn the other way

My fault to keep holding onto something I shouldn't

This is not a selfish decision I had to endure

I could only think of you and the rest of them.

Beyond this you should be

finding your way out of the misery I gave

This might take sometime to accept and even forget

yet at the end of all these

You have been a part of me and always you'll be

someone worth it all

And that I shall keep...

Forever

Between the Gutter and the Star

Tinuring na kitang isang tala,
Hindi ng aking mga gabi, Kundi ng aking mga araw;
Sa unang pagkakataon pa lamang
Na nasagi Ng pakpak ng labi ng aking paningin
Ang labi ng pakpak ng iyong mga ngiti. Isang tala——
Abot tingin, ngunit Magpakailanma’y ‘di abot kamay.
Tinangka kong sukatin Ang agwat na naghihiwalay Sa ating dalawa—-
Kung gaano ka kalayyo sa akin, Kung gaano ako kalayo sayo.
Tsss.
Isang dipa ln pala Ang layo mo sakin,
Ang layo ko sa’yo;
Kabaligtaran ng buong inakala kong
Daan-daang nakapilang planeta
At libu-libong nakaabang na dilim ng gabi ang agwat mo sa’kin.
Nakakatawa. Nakakatuwa. Subalit,
Kapag inabot ko ba ang kamay ko
Sa isang dipang espasyong
Naghihiwala’y sa’kin sayo’y
Aabutin mo ito,
At hahawakan?

Nananaginip ba ang bulag?

Nananaginip ba ang bulag
Sa mundong walang sinag?
May kulay ba ang dilim
Sa mundong kulay itim?

Hindi mo lubos maisip
Kung ano’ng klaseng panaginip
Sa mundong walang Makita
Ano ang malilikha?

Nananaginip ang bulag
Pikit man o dilat
Hindi mo man lubos maisip
Dahil ang pananaw mo’y makitid.

Makulay ang mundo nila
Di lang berde, di lang pula
Di tulad ng mundo mo
Puro usok, kulay abo.

Pangarap ng bulag ang makakita
Di tulad mo, nabubulag sa nakikita
Kulay ginto, kulay dugo
Iyan ang pinapangarap mo.

Ang bulag ay nakakalakad sa dilim
Ikaw ay lumalakad tungo sa dilim
Sila’y nakadarama ng init at lamig
Ika’y walang nadarama dahil ikaw ay manhid.

Ang panaginip ng bulag ay puno ng kabutihan
Makulay, maganda, at kapakipakinabang
Di tulad ng pangarap ng pinuno ng bayan
Makasarili, gahaman, at puno ng kasalanan.

Sa puso ng bulag ay may pusong tumitibok
Sa panaginip  ng bulag ay may mabuting nalililok
Sa ating mundong gingalawan,
Sino kaya ang tunay na bulag?

Temporary

Listening to his voice was once my passion
Those words…
Those beautiful words that he spoke
As our emotions dwell on that room

Yes! That room where only he and I exist.

It’s like heaven had open its doors for us.
When the angels’ voices mingled with glee
As they follow the melody that echoes deep in our hearts.

Our memories were painted on the back of that door
The memories that I thought was ever-fixed.

I prayed for eternity,
But I guess eternity never existed.
And now, things have changed.

Everything has changed. . .

Now, his voice is obscure.
So vague that I can barely hear it.
Mournfulness strikes me from within.

I am alone. . .
Alone in this room
Trying to put things in oblivion.
As my demons dissipate every part of my soul,
I lie in this cold and dirty floor trying to imagine.
Imagine what life could have been if things never happened

I thought we were. . . .

I thought we can be. . .

But still, that’s how love remains to be. . .