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MM Mar 2021
I remember when you drove me home

You were worried about my dad at the garage,

Thinking “they would think I’m no good for you”

With your ripped jeans and black shirt

I laughed it off then

Maybe you were on to something, now that I think about it

Maybe you really were no good for me
MM Mar 2021
At 2 am, she whispered
all about the things that scared her
confessions of dark secrets
and concealed vulnerabilities
an answer of ‘I got you, baby' broke the silence
an illusion taking place
a bubble of false promises

Funny how we spend years of building up walls,
only for the wrong people to crawl over it,
and we bare ourselves, finally
only to put more layers when left behind

The walls built,
the cage her heart was put in,
broken just enough to be put back in
higher
stronger

So at 2 am, she whispered
'never again shall I let anyone in'
Sad, don't you think?
How we come to destroy things we have no intention to keep
MM Feb 2021
Hindi mo mapapatahimik ang mga kumakalam na sikmura

Ang mga sumisigaw para sa pagbabago,

para sa katarungan

para sa ating mga karapatan

Maari **** busalan ang kanilang mga bibig,

magpanggap na wala kang naririnig

O piringan ang kanilang mga mata,

magbulag-bulagan sa katotohanan na sa bawat karapatan na patuloy kinikitil at niyayapakan,

baka sa’yo na ang susunod

Pero sabi mo, ‘bakit pa ako makikisali, hindi naman ako apektado’

o ‘bakit ba sila nanggugulo, wala namang magandang nadudulot ‘to’

Hindi ka sumasama sa laban,

dahil ngayon hindi pa ikaw ang nasa loob ng rehas kahit walang kasalanan

Hindi pa ikaw ang sapilitang hinuhuli at tinatadyakan sa daan

dahil lamang pinaglalaban mo ang iyong kabuhayan

Hindi pa ikaw ang nakahandusay sa daan, duguan

dahil lang napagkamalan

Hindi pa

Pero baka malapit na

Hihintayin mo pa ba?
MM Jan 2021
I wasn’t perfect. far from it, really.

But you weren’t either.

Still, I would have kept choosing you,

if you had only let me.

I would have helped you fight your demons,

if you had only let me.

Only I was willing to look at it as glass half full

You’ve always seen it as half empty.
MM Jan 2021
The magnitude of what can happen in a span of a week is terrifying

The thought that you could be happy now and broken in just a snap of a finger is numbing

And while life always has its uncertainties,

it doesn’t make unexpected goodbyes hurt any less
MM Jan 2021
Falling asleep with a heavy heart

Waking up with it being heavier

I hope you never get to feel this kind of pain again

That one day, that heart of yours will feel lighter

And happier

And free

to feel anything more than just pain
MM Jan 2021
maingay ang mga mata,

anumang hindi kayang banggitin ng labi o ng pagkumpas ng mga kamay,

kayang iparating ng mga mata

ng mga luhang nagingilid, nagbabadya ng pagpatak

ng pagkasingkit at pagkapugto nila na tila magdamag ang hinagpis

ng pamumula na paalala ng sakit na pinipilit mang ikubli ng labi o pagkumpas ng mga kamay

ay hindi maitago ng maingay na mga mata
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