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LL Jan 2
of GRAVITATION —
I want you near just as much
as you want me close
01/02/2025
LL May 15
you wear my shirt from
the night before like it's your
turn to fill my space

to savor and taste
where there was only hunger
just the night before
2025/085
LL May 13
I thought I needed
you — for me to be happy
turns out I only
needed you to be happy
no matter where that leaves me
2025/083
LL Jan 14
let me
want your future —
   one that's
   certain and sturdy

and need your now —
   where we're
   calm and quiet


where waking up
   doesn't hurt
   anymore
   because it's
   no longer
   just
   a dream

01/14/2025
LL 3d
tell me where, tell me
when
I can find happiness —
so I can go there
2025/092
LL Nov 2024
I'm always stealing
glances and end up getting
lost in your eyes, or
is it the ocean — to be
honest, what's the difference
LL Apr 2024
right hand seeks the lamp
left arm — numb with you in it
I wake up alone
LL May 2024
when you are driving
don't slow down when the light's green
do so when it's orange
LL Nov 2024
please don't be mad at him
for the secrets he tried to keep —
for him it's a truth too heavy, too deep
too wide to exit out his mouth
LL Mar 6
to those who told me
they did it for my own good —
I'm not good — what now?
02/18/2025
LL May 2024
kung pagod ka na
'di kailangang umalis
— magpahinga ka

LL Nov 2024
they say, LIFE is a
                 PARTY! — maybe it is, and
                                     I'm an introvert
LL May 2024
someone's calling me
I look around thinking — did
I forgot to pay?

LL Jun 2024
our time came and went
like the few seconds of peace
in-between bullets
Thoughts and prayers to those lost to gun violence
LL Oct 2024
peal my layers off
eat me up and spit me out
plant me — I'm a seed
LL Nov 2024
we had that one old
photo that always reminds
me how I wanted
to have kids with you, and you
did have kids — just not with me
LL May 7
you, who keep singing
a song after leaving the
room — coming back and
picking up where you left off —
like you never even left
2025/077
LL Sep 2024
things I left unsaid
walks the plank that is my
tongue, but they won't jump
and now roam my mouth — ghosts with
a LIFE more DEAD than ALIVE
LL Sep 2024
the PARABLE of
the
PLEASER:      "can you help with . . ."

YEAH
             SURE THING
                                       WHY NOT

LL Feb 8
days — blurry, nights — hazed
time poured in a glass-like stream
unremarkably
02/01/2025
LL Jul 2024
seated, my back rests
but calm deserted me when
you pressed my shoulders
LL Mar 17
I can work under
pressure — is it your job to
put pressure on me?
02/22/2025
LL May 2024
I'm gravitated
like rain from a thundercloud
falling to the earth
LL Mar 18
a raging river
of thoughts,  a stream of words — the
rest flows out as tears

02/23/2025
LL Apr 2024
quickly does the road
get stained by the rain that fell
fast from somewhere else
LL Apr 23
I saw you walk in—
to this place like an ocean
wave — reclaiming land
                                            (I'm the land)
2025/066
LL Apr 25
as long as the sea
ends up on top of meclaimed
inevitably
2025/069
LL May 2024
Dear lover,

I've been feeding the white wolf
while the black wolf sleeps.
The sun sets, and I sleep alone.

If I feed the black wolf
while the white wolf dreams,
would I find you at sunset,
at the end of this red string?

Love,
LL
LL May 2024
the cold wind whispers
there's nothing left for you here
so I struck a match
LL Apr 2024
restless, these long nights
looking for you in the stars
found you — I found rest
LL Apr 2024
inside the tunnel
the clown made you cry again
I promise not to
LL Apr 2024
boy ran to the fields
his brother rose to meet him
finally, they're home
LL May 14
that guy who runs through
temples but stays in place — is
life an illusion

2025/084
LL May 2024
yeah, I'm twenty-eight
next year I'll be twenty-nine
nasa'n ka na ba?
LL Jun 2024
'di ko na naman
nakuha 'yung gusto ko
— nas'an ka na ba?

LL Jun 2016
the wind kissed your hair
just like sakura petals
I can't look away

sakura fall five
centimeters per second
I'm falling faster

you're a sakura
and I'm a cobblestone path
waiting for autumn

I left home armored
and soon I will be back home
as a sakura


LL Aug 2015
waves rush towards her
sand slipping between her toes
I am letting go
LL Jan 21
sarcasm demands
shared intimate history
for it to make sense
01/21/2025
LL May 2024
the green of the sea is the green I see
when I look in your eyes
𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
LL Jan 12
deep voice drew me in —
close enough to inhale his
secondhand stories
01/11/2025
LL Aug 2024
it will all make sense
you can't tell that to someone
who is hurting NOW
LL Oct 2024
his LIPS — pressed to my
      nape — bear witness to    the SHAPE
                                        of my EXISTENCE
LL Sep 2024
owning a pencil
must come with a sharpener
or skills, and a blade
LL Jan 26
got so depressed in
the middle of changing sheets
I slept without one
                                   (for months)
01/25/25
LL Jun 2024
these shifting shadows
of streetlight-lit leaves make it
hard to walk home
                                     d         u          k
                                           r          n
LL Jul 2024
how can you see stars
when you close your eyes shut, but
not when you're awake
LL Aug 2024
look into my eyes
and you'll see how silently
I'm screaming right now
LL Jan 6
the real sin is not
in two men in love but in
choosing to hate love
01/06/2025
LL Dec 2024
skin — your skin — excites
the hell out of me like it's
fine art on the street
LL Dec 2024
sun's hot, water's wet
— and skin was just skin until
I saw it on you
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