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brent marasigan Feb 2024
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I have weathered countless storms
And will continue to do so.
Why should I be scared of a flood,
When I can control the flow?

The stars may not align,
The universe may not be on my side.
But I won't be put out without a fight,
I have nowhere else left to hide,
I am here for the wild, wild ride!
Lots of wins and losses lately. No matter the failures, I will always persist and persevere. Watch me, universe.

02/29/2024 - 2:38 AM
brent marasigan Aug 2022
we were both like the moon -
casting light during the darkest nights.
but despite the potential we possess,
we are unable to reach the greatest heights.

staying still,
holding our ground.
just patiently waiting -
to finally be found,
and to go where we are bound.

one and the same.
but that's just where it ends.
we can never surpass
being just two good friends.
brent marasigan Mar 2020
The roaring sound of the early morning breeze
Creeps through my ears
It tries its hardest to lull me to sleep,
By whispering my deepest, darkest fears

At the wee hours of the morning,
Where the calm and darkness dance and crawl,
People are dreaming deeply of a tomorrow
That may never come at all

As our cries are thrown silently to the void
And as the world sleeps tightly tonight
The solitude within the night comforts us
As we wait for the glorious morning light
As the title implies, I wrote this one when I failed to get some good night sleep and I cannot help but think of all the thoughts that make my head heavy.
brent marasigan Jan 2021
There is nothing more stimulating
Than the thoughts I have at night.
Just when I try to fall asleep,
My mind puts up an exhausting fight.
I can’t sleep 🤯

2 am | 01-15-21
brent marasigan Mar 2020
I saw you cry yourself to sleep last night
A tear-soaked pillow screams that nothing goes right
But I know you'll survive a fall no matter the height

Your thoughts- so vicious and wild
You'll see your hopes and dreams get defiled
You're in a war; you'll find yourself all riled

Monsters lurking in the shadows‘ll jump at you
Your darkest nightmares old and new
Wherever the battlefield, I know you'll make it through

This is not just a physical battle
Your mind, your heart, your soul will rattle
You’ll hear your inner demons prattle

Prepare for your life's longest night
Prepare for an unrelenting fight
The bitter-sweet end will soon be in sight

Breathe deep, firmly hold your ground
Do not give in; do not, in your sorrows, get drowned
As you will go to where you are truly bound
Something undesirable happened today and I wrote this one to cope with it
Du
brent marasigan Mar 2020
Du
You are not your parents
Nor who the cruel others make of you
You are the hardbound books you read
and the songs that by heart, you knew

You are not just one color
You are not just blue, red, nor green
You are the beats that you dance to
And the words you say you mean

Write  your own dreamy stories
The pen is on your hand
Don't let others write your plot
Don't let it come out so bland

You are who you make of yourself
Don't let the world tell you otherwise
Try to explore deep inside of you
Before your true self pay the price
Du is You in Deutsch
brent marasigan Mar 2021
The cold 3 am breeze
Tickles my skin.
The sound of your favorite song
Puts my mind in a spin.

I am now in a cloud
Way, way up the sky.
Constantly wondering why
You never said goodbye.
Meehhh

March 13, 3 am
brent marasigan Jul 2020
I want so badly to be devoured by myself
And to still feel at ease, at home
Despite all the voices inside telling me
"This is no place for you to roam"

I've nothing left to do
Nowhere left to go
But I continue running
And putting up a show
Ever felt like you are not comfortable with your own skin, with who you are? Or how you are not in a place where you belong but you have to still have your **** together because people are watching. ***** man
brent marasigan Sep 2020
Our story was short,
But it was filled with bliss.
I’m grateful to you for,
Giving me peace.

You held my hand,
I held yours too.
We were floating in air,
But we never flew.

As the last chapter ends,
As I put the pen down,
I thought of you —
In your laugh and smiles, I drown.
- B, 09-23-20, 01:45
brent marasigan Apr 2020
The thought of you lingers on my mind,
And the things we could've done.
Now you're not here with me anymore,
And there is nowhere left to run.

The image of you haunts me:
Your eyes that speak a lot,
The words that come out of your mouth,
And the things that you are not.
brent marasigan Mar 2020
Something quickly pounds my brain
I'm about to go insane

It hurts to not be able to confide
What my soul is truly screaming inside

Most wouldn't understand, you see
There is no time that I felt free
brent marasigan Apr 2020
We used to have all the time in the world
Crammed all too comfortably within our hands
We spoke so sure of tomorrow
When all that we had were fleeting plans

Now all I have is a memory of you
A memory so silent yet so loud
Shattered thoughts of you that are old and new
Through all this, my love, I'll make you proud
brent marasigan Apr 2020
With corrupted minds and dark souls
These monsters lurk not in the shadows
They hide not under your beds
But within you, they feed on your sorrows
Found this one scribbled on one of my old planners, this must be a product of the 3 am sad hour (based on the time I wrote there)
brent marasigan Feb 2024
At cross roads once again
No idea where to go
Lost in space, drowning at sea
But, whatever flows flows

The mighty winds
Used to carry me well.
Now like a leaf from above,
I struggled and fell.

Second star to the right?
But there isn't one star in the sky.
Will I ever find my way back?
There's no other choice but to fly.
Having a hard time finding out who and what I am in life. Things used to be easy but it's just so chaotic right now.

02/26/2024, 2:30 AM
brent marasigan Apr 2020
Tortured by silence
At the darkest of night
I crave for peace
Before comes the light

Raging thoughts
Need to be contained
They stop at nothing
Not until im pained
Can't sleep
brent marasigan Mar 2020
Here I sit silently in darkness
Windows wide open, basking in Nyx’s prowess
The farthest stars whispered to me
Told me to go run wild and be free

My musings scattered from here to there
The night gave me secrets I couldn’t seem to bear
With night’s company, I’m at peace
All my fears and worries seem to cease
My insomniac self wrote this
brent marasigan Feb 2022
The largest stars could never amount
To the sparks I see in your eyes.
Pieces of you will forever be within me,
even until the last heavenly body dies.

The two of us next to the cosmos are nothing,
Nothing but helpless specks of dust.
But I am, to you, as constant as the air you breathe,
Even if the world stops being fair and just.
Happy valentine’s!

02-14-22
brent marasigan May 2020
We were there - the both of us
Reaching for the stars
Writing adventures, stories,
Moments that were never ours

You made me believe,
You made me feel, think
That an entire book could be written
But we suddenly ran out of ink.

The stories that made it into paper
Once crumbled will never,
Never go back to how it was.
On this page the words stopped, forever.
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brent marasigan Apr 2020
Time enjoys to play with everyone and faith is his good ol' company
They mess with people hand-in-hand, revealing the subtlety

We are all wandering, unfortunate souls, willing victims to their ploys
One minute we plan our lives, the next we hear them make their noise
Ever felt like you aren't in control of your own life? Cause most of the time I do
brent marasigan Mar 2020
As much as I wanted to go near you, I could not.
Even if I exhaust all that I’ve got.

I was the sea, you were the sky.
Waiting for you is tiring, I wouldn’t lie.

Our interaction would've been lit
But we are destined not to meet.
A short poem I wrote back in 2016 (11-28) when I was in 11th grade. I can't honestly seem to remember where I got these thoughts from lol
remember the feeling of falling,
before you enter the land of dreams?
i felt that in your presence,
not knowing what the future deems.

felt when I looked into your eyes,
and once our fingers intertwined.
we face an uncertain tomorrow,
with both our hearts aligned.

but no one can ever be prepared
to face dark, rainy nights,
when you've gotten used to sunny days,
and nights under bright city lights.

opened my eyes, realizing the fall.
head throbbing, but I'm awake.
was it a dream? a nightmare?
why does my chest still ache?

the line blurs between real and fake,
a memory, or a soul’s mistake?
brent marasigan Feb 2022
Mind exploded, heart broken,
Thinking of the things that could’ve been.
Words unspoken, melodies unsung,
And views left unseen.

A song paused just before the chorus,
A film that never reached its ******.
Our story’s like a traveler in a forest,
Who forever lost its tracks.
02-11-22
brent marasigan Mar 2020
There he walks freely into the day,
His presence enough to make one's life gray.
No one is excused from his cruel wrath,
Tainted are those who walk amongst him in his path.

He who finds himself in his clutches,
Endangers all the others whom he touches.
A breath of fresh air he would lack,
A life he once enjoyed impossible to take back.

His unknowing victims stood at a line,
Before falling into a pit, thinking they're fine.
They lie between a man in white,
And the old man Azrael who walks the night.
brent marasigan Mar 2020
As we danced with goodbyes in mind
Your stares pierced right into my soul
‘Tis something that happened out of chance
I see a new day that’s as dark as coal

While our bodies dance in synchrony,
Our hands are clenched oh so tight.
Darling I don’t want to let go,
I don’t want to lose you out of my sight.

To lay my eyes onto you one last time
Would feel like a strike, a stab into this fragile heart of mine
With a farewell that one would have to bid,
One can only pretend that one is genuinely fine.

With the last few steps that we can take,
I know that our love will age as fine as wine.
As time goes by and devours us all,
Always, I am yours and you are mine.
brent marasigan Apr 2020
I inevitably stood before a world with wars
And won most of battles up until now
I never did keep track of the scores
Now I face myself filled with questions of how

They say the greatest battles lie within
Within my mind's mountains and heart's seas
I'll arm myself, wait for the battles to begin
Begin to march to the land of the yearned peace

Someone whispered to me "be still and tough,
For the night's still long and filled with terror,
You'll fight with all your heart, that'll be enough,
You will win, then, the uncertainties'll be lesser"
We'll get through our personal battles and soon make sense of our life's biggest questions
brent marasigan Apr 2020
He who's brave enough to go against the current
Shall find himself in a total foreign land
But only the exceptional finds it
As they're those who know how to take a stand

From birth to death they try to mold us
Into someone who we are truly not
But curiosity will always get the better of us
We'd rather be different than choose to go rot

Decide to not be a puppet of the public
Cut your silver strings and let go
Free yourself from the chains of orthodoxy
Go ahead my dear and put on a show!
brent marasigan Aug 2020
I want to see,
What your eyes see.
I want to feel,
Your soul’s glee.

Out of touch
And out of sight.
On different sides,
But we’ll fight.

Hold my hands
And hold them tight.
Baby we’ll jump,
No matter the height.

“Trust me, love,
Just close your eyes.
Because together,
We’ll reach for the skies.”
- B, 08-31-20, 01:40
brent marasigan Apr 2020
Longing for a love so deep
Deprives one the most peaceful sleep
You endlessly wonder what you lack,
And the lost opportunities you can't take back

You think you are the problem why
Why in this world, you cannot fly
But in reality you just cannot see
That you bleed of so much love and glee
My thoughts right now. Please take good care of yourselves x
brent marasigan Apr 2020
My heart is shattered
No one is to blame but me
Ashes are scattered
brent marasigan Apr 2020
We die every single day,
Even in the tiniest, most mundane way.
We die inside for all that we feel,
Because we try so hard to keep them at bay.

We die, we drown in seas of thoughts
Of the uncertain, and of the grim
We jump in the water thinking we'll float
Only to find out we are unable to swim
brent marasigan Mar 2020
We drink, we breathe, we dance
Shrugging the darkness that lies inside
We drink, we breathe, we dance
Empowering the mortal pride

'Carpe diem!' we vehemently scream
Carelessly into the mountain crest
We swam in the uncharted waters of life
And drove our lives from east to west

There will arrive a time that we must halt
But that does not mean that we are to stop living
The unrelenting journey will continue on
Even after our beloved ones stop grieving

Breathe deep, breathe clear, my friend
For the path is long and harsh
Do not dare close your eyes
Do not; even after you reached the stars
brent marasigan Apr 2020
Mind squeezed, heart broken
And words that aren't spoken
Silence fills poems
brent marasigan Oct 2021
From hours on end I thought of you
What could be going on inside your mind?
I am here, in darkness, pondering
How I am scared to get left behind.

Should I tell you the truth?
Not sure if it’s a risk I wanna take.
To lose you or to be with you?
Now it’s a matter of make or break.
brent marasigan Apr 2020
People always say words can heal what's broken
But all I hear are words that are fleshless and empty
Loud cracks heard as they pierced through me
Emanating nothing but vicious pain aplenty
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— The End —