Thinking about you between meetings,
Between meals, between showers,
Between random scrolling on the internet,
Makes me giddy and profoundly safe.
Lately may have been hectic,
Crowded of thoughts and uncertainties.
Thinking about you solely,
Does not ease any of it truthfully
But choosing you among those things, does.
Remembering why we even started
How you make me feel enough and heard
How I can still picture vividly the first time you kissed me and how it smells
In hopes that the feelings and memories
won’t be slowly slipping away.
Those full infinitives
In the future are not what I am after all
From then on ‘til now
That’s what really matters.
Jun 1, 2023
Jun 1, 2023 at 8:37 AM UTC
You are the calm to my storm,
the lighthouse to my hurricane.
And I couldn't be more grateful for having someone like you
despite the distance,
the drama and mundane days that I'm always putting on you
even those things in between.
You are my solace,
I couldn't ask for more.
Apr 23, 2019
Apr 23, 2019 at 2:15 PM UTC
They say you only live once
so cliché as it may sound
But do make the most out of it
as you live your life
Do it according to your own parameters
No need to compare it with others.
For as long as you decide for your sake
Never hesitate to figure things out on your own
When you set your pace of living your dreams
You will never have to worry.
Happiness and success are two interlinking entities
Having both is a blessing
But flourishing in every circumstances you encounter is way more than pleasing.
And as you only live once,
Maybe you can always try to do something to forget than to regret later on.
Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 12:59 PM UTC
Dati-rati, palagi kong hinahangad sa sarili —
Sana'y dumating na ang panahong magagawa ko nang lisanin.
Dati-rati, palagi kong sinasabi na kaya ko na,
Sapat na siguro ang dekantong taon na paghahanda at pinagsamahan natin.
Dati-rati, tila ayaw ko nang manatili sa likod ng mga dakilang poste kung tawagin,
Naging uhaw sa naghihintay na mala-karagatang pangarap na sisisirin.
Dati-rati, ang kasalukuyang pagkakataon ang pinaka-inaasam,
Ngayon ikaw ang nais muling masilayan at makapiling lamang.
Alam ko malalim pa ang aking sisisirin,
Para sa pangarap at pagbabagong minimithi.
At sa bagong umagang darating, patuloy ko sanang maisabuhay ang mga aral na iyong ibinahagi.
Jan 22, 2018
Jan 22, 2018 at 5:12 AM UTC
Out of randomly seeking
I’ve seen this possible opportunity
I hope I’ll be qualified enough
To proved my self-worth
Even more than what others may thought of me
Just give me a chance
I won’t mess up this time
This could be it
No to jinx please
I’m trembling upon typing
No to more errors please
Just a single chance is what I plead
Lead my way to You.
Dec 6, 2017
Dec 6, 2017 at 11:14 PM UTC
Sometimes I am thinking what if you did not become my seatmate
What if I let myself drowned in my own belief of life and never encountered you anyway
Could it become less painful for me?
How you slapped on my face that I was nothing
But here I am with nothing but a plead
Foolishly hope that it could be you and me
Lasted for more or less couple of years
How could it made so restless and weak?
I guess poetry speaks to the immediate wound
The kind of wound that I myself never imagined to be my first genuine woe
Running through my mind's tunnel straight down to my heart
Both battling to win over from each other for quite a time now
But rightful enough to make me tough
Prudent enough to thwart my bluff
Grasping it as a part of life to be learned with might and thump.
Right now, I am just happy, satisfied enough of what we had
Even what we could have had and can no longer have was the best thing I have never had
For I know better now than the last time you left me hanging with just your cold breathing
This time as I open my heart of being loved than to only love
My heart feels warm and flying
Breeding hope that I could be happier than I used to be
Because finally I set myself free
Breaking free from you whom I never thought would teach me this thing, that thing;
That thing called “katangahan”.
As Sarah Kay and Philip Kaye would say,
I would also like to say to the person who never gave the love that I deserve,
“Thank you for stopping by.”
Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 3:04 AM UTC
Barely holding on to,
Yet striving not to fall apart.
Yard by yard,
life is indeed hard.
Yet inch by inch,
It shall be a clinched.
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 7:44 AM UTC
Give them a cat face
And they'll bark you
So what then?
Curse them with a smile
For beneath you can conceal
Please do not feel
Yet one must recognize the fancy dress that covers
There could be more than just troubles
Embrace it as long as you withstand.
Make the most out of your candidness
Set it free once the Guard told you so though
The fog of wisdom is fast approaching
Learn to get rid of worth not having
But don't forget to wear your comfy sneakers then strike a pose
Anyway this is your runway show.
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 7:42 AM UTC
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Rise like the sun for every surge that's coming.
A wavering ocean won't wait for you to realize as the captain of your own ship.
Either you keep on cruisin' or follow where the cached stars are leading you.
Throughout the voyage, be reminded you're surrounded by adversities.
Your ship won't be sinking unless you let the water in.
The waves are telling you to be still, and reminding you that they just come and go.
Patiently waiting for the time when the stars can be vividly seen under the sky of dreams.
Mind setting like the sun at every end of the day.
Deep down within, I know there could always be a good thing to sustain me.
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 7:41 AM UTC
Let me focus on you.
Solely on you.
Not because they withered.
But because on top of all,
You're the one that truly matters.
Your somber death were like these unlit sunflowers,
As if they're joining the sun as it sets,
And hand over a silver lining for the next morn to come.
Ah, sunflower and sunset — these two have always been my favorites.
Both can be as bright as the sun that shines through my fingers,
As I cover my face because of dismay,
I know that even in times when I badly want to see and touch them but couldn't,
Nothing has changed.
Just because something did not turn out the way it should be, something has changed maybe,
Doesn't mean they are not what they used to be right?
Everything needs a break, everything has its end.
But for every ending is another opportunity to begin with.
And that can always be a start of something new,
something beyond what can superficially be seen.
So for this time, let me see and shout your name again..
because maybe that's just what I need, to genuinely listen.
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 7:37 AM UTC