In lonely moments
I stroll the waning memories
when love pure smiled blissfully
deep within a fawning heart

a wistful melody arises untainted
like a steaming enslaved passion
                         breathlessly released
                              unrestrained,..

         ­                          evident
                    as the pressed and dried flowers
          cuddled between life's ardent petaled pages,
                         bookmarks of the heart

                         traces of the wild bouquets
                         that often soothingly caress’d
                         the energizing tingles  
                         inflaming a tantalizing touch

                         the yearning  empty voids
                         feverishly undressed,
                         traced in the hidden sands
                         of unexplored oceans..
                        
                         though time and distance
make the bereft heart grow helplessly fonder,
memories fade softly as the summer breeze befalls,
  
                         as gentle feather’d touch
                         the evanescent sunset afterglow
                         where the earth and sky align
                         the dimming of the day

         loving can heal
the poet’s bleeding words,
loving can mend your soul ―

                         the perennial dawning of an
                         unpromised new day
                         will someday come again

        bequeathed like the bluebird’s mirthful song
to bring forth nascent wild flowers’ blossoming petals
              flourishing in the meadow of my heart


                 *Someone you used to know

Ang pagmamahal siguro'y bulag nga
Nang makita kita sayo'y nahulog agad
Ikaw ay may itsura
Mabait at palangiti pa

Ngunit sabi ng Ina'y ako ay mag-ingat
Tayo'y magka-iba, hindi raw pinagtadhana
Hindi ako naniwala
Alam kong sayo ako'y sasaya ng lubusan

Naglaro, nagtawanan
Sa mga panahong kasama ka ako'y nagagalak
Subalit dumating ang araw
Araw na magwawakas pala ang lahat

Ako'y nawasak at ikaw ang may sala
Unti-unting nabasag
Wala na akong magagawa
Tama nga ang sinabi ng ina na hind tayo para sa isa't-isa

You were once my sun and moon
You were once my day and night
You were once my sweet dreams
You were  once my reality

Now tell me,
How do I unlove you,
When you became my everything?

It just hurts so much
Because we were once each other's worlds
And now
we act like nothing happened to us.

All I needed was
Some affection
Some love
And some attention
But you failed to give me that.

How do we know, if we don't love a person anymore?
How do we know, that you're not attached to that person anymore?
How do we know, that the person might care?
How do we know, why we keep asking these questions?

We know the asnwers, but we choose to ignore.
Still stuck in the rugged past.
Hoping for a euphemised answer.
Holding on to the feelings in the past.
The memories, remain.
The people, changed.