Unappreciated
i do everything i can
for people that i love
yet they don't seem to notice
the extra miles i walk for them

Unwanted
they choose others over me
when I'd choose them over others
i am everyone's last choice
i am everyone's last resort

Unworthy
i deem myself unworthy of time
for one seems to give me theirs
it's sad how i give every second i have
to the people who won't give me a minute

Pangako, hindi ka namin kalilimutan.
Bibigyan ng oras, gagawan ng paraan.
Ako naman, naniwala sa inyong kasinungalingan.
Ngayon tuloy, ako ang nasasaktan.

Ang pangako ay hindi sinabi upang ipako.
Sa halip, ito ay sinusunod.
Ikaw mismo ang nagsabi nito, alam mo ba?
Ngunit bakit hindi mo nagawa?

From sleepless nights to blissful dreams,
A drastic change from chaos to peace.
From your departure, I was hurt,
But now from sadness, I divert.

Like a dart hits a bullseye's iris,
Your presence, that's how I miss.
With this paper and pen,
I admit, I think of you now and then.

But you are my life's fraudulent scheme,
Water rapidly flowing in the stream.
You've already passed and gone away
Like my love for you has died away.

A half-remembered dream,
It is you, as it may seem.
A dream as sublime as a flower garden,
But a dream that will soon be forgotten.

Every time you speak
I'd need needles and threads
to fix the broken heartstrings
and stitch my broken heart

i like how the taste of blood
lingers in my mouth
just like the thought of you
lingers in my heart

together by fate
separated by destiny
how cruel of them
to play with our feelings

but how cruel of you
to tell me that you miss me
when you won't come back,
happy with someone else

Today I will write a poem
not about your face
and how beautiful
and sublime it is

Today I will write a poem
not about my love
and how it is about you
and only you

Today I will write a poem
not about your love
and how it is not about me
and how it deeply hurts me

Instead, I will write a poem
about us, only us
except that
there is no us

your memories cut through
my heartstrings tied in knots
how cruel of you
to visit my thoughts

3 months, 12 weeks, 61 days
enough to make my heart ablaze
4 months, 16 weeks, 83 days
without you, my life's a haze

Am I the only one who cares
about keeping in touch?
Am I the only one who dares
to wait without rush?

Why am I the only one who's hurt?
Is it because of the effort I exert?
Is it because I care deeply
when they were having fun freely?

I wait, I wait, and I wait.
I sacrifice time because it's worth it.
But you can't even stay for me
Am I not worth it?

With you, I want to be.
With them, you want to be.
So I ask again,
Am I not worth it?

Happiness with you, I desired
but now, I am sick, I am tired
I must find happiness on my own
I can only be happy alone.

it has been days and weeks
since my tears kissed my cheeks
yet here i am, writing in such a long time
with you in my mind, i cant think of any rhyme

it's always you for months and weeks,
it's you my mind always thinks
your name my mouth always speaks
your soul my heart always seeks

Sometimes my sleep is dreamless
sometimes it is not
but I can't tell the difference
for from sleep, tiredness is all I got

Yet in my tiring slumber
dreaming is what I like most
when I dream, I dream of my summer
summer with you is as lovely as a rose

I know that I must put these dreams aside
For heartbreaks, it will only provide
but it doesn't matter for in waking or sleeping,
it is you I see, only you I see.

I once told you
how passionate I am
when it comes
to my one and only vice

With that, you retort
"Alcohol is never the answer"
and with that statement, I ceased
for in you, I believed

Before, only wine can make me high,
but our happy months came by,
surprised at how you made me high
With you, I reached the sky

A single drop, my lips didn't touch
but when you left
the only thing, it became
my lips ever reached

Now that I ponder on it
I should really cease
doing my newest habit:
thinking of you

Always there for me, you are
Giving counsel even from afar
Abandoned me, you never did
Truly, you are the friend I want to be with
Happiness and joy, you always bring
Ah, my friend, thank you for everything

Many problems, I faced and expressed
As to your counsel, I never did transgressed
Really surprised that you haven't left yet
I'm sorry for always bothering you
Everything, I'm sorry for what I do

Joking all the time, you always do
Oh, but dear, I know you're hurt inside too
Very impressed by your strength, I am
Establishing happiness in your life despite everything
Rest easy, I'll be here through thick and thin

Everything that you do
Sophisticated, very much like you
Queen of happiness and smiles
Unbent, unbroken, and fueled on for miles and miles
I know you are not problem-less though
Love, know from your side I would never go
Leaving is not in you nor me
Oh, for you, I will always be here.

Ashen face
Bluest feelings
Cascade of unfortunate events
Desolated at best
Estranged by you
Faux happiness
Ghost of you
Haunted by the past
Iron heart
Jarred thoughts
Knight without an armor
Lysander without Hermia
Monotonous days
Nightmares and night terrors
Overwhelmed by your departure
Poetic justice
Quenched flames
Rusted heart
Separation anxiety
Thunderstorms
Victim of my sins
Withdrawal syndrome
Xenophobic unless it's you
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Zero, game over

Fourteen days of
pain and agony
Two weeks of
sadness and melancholy

Today marks the fourteenth day
of me living without you
of me still thinking about you
and of me haunted by you

I'd be lying if I said I am not counting
the days since you bade farewell
for each day spent without you
is a day spent unwell

We were the very definition
of "Ill met by moonlight"
for it was an unfortunate mistake
of life to bring you and I alight

We weren't meant to meet that night
but somehow, life put that into light
thus, friendship blossomed
new, fresh, and fond

In the end,
for you perhaps
we were the definition
of Shakespeare's renowned quote

But I did not regret meeting you
for you introduced me to a better world
a world with you in it
but now a world without

I had a dream about you again
A dream about you returning
A dream about you staying
A dream. It's only a dream.

I haven't been sleeping
for you've been haunting me
in every dream I dream

I haven't been eating
for my plate reminds me of the times
we talked about our favorites

I haven't been talking
to my friends, to my family, to everyone
for you were the only one I talked to

I haven't been myself
for I wasn't really myself
when I was talking to you

I was more than myself
and now that you're gone
I'm back to the nothing before you happened

You made me promise not to write about you
And promised you that, I did
Just because you promised me you'd never leave.

Little did you know, I promised that because
I only write poems about people who leave
And poems about broken promises.

I tried and did my best
To find the right words to say
Just to avoid hurting you in anyway
And succeeded avoiding that, I did.

I was so caught up in the idea
Of not hurting you
To the very point that
I ended up hurting myself.

I always find it so breathtaking
To witness the skies change
From dark, cold nights
To warm, sunny mornings.

The change reminds me of so much,
Most especially, it reminds me
Of the countless nights we shared
And of the very morning I lost you.

I slept fifteen hours today
And that means I dreamt of you for fifteen hours,
You haunted my dreams for fifteen hours,
You haunted me for fifteen hours.

Now I just woke up to a gloomy evening
Dark skies and the bells ringing
It has started again,
The thought of you is haunting me again.

Ngayong nagdaan na ang isang linggong malamig at maulan,
Nagpakita na ang araw, mainit at maliwanag.
Alam kong dapat masaya ako pero
Paano ako sasaya kung ikaw lang lagi ang naaalala ko?

Naiinis ako sa araw, pinapaalala niya ang mga nagdaang linggo,
Mga linggong magkausap tayo tungkol sa kahit ano.
Mga linggong nakakapagod pero napapawi mo.
Mga linggong wala akong maisagot sa papel ko
Pero bigla ka nalang papasok sa isip ko,
Kasama ng mga sagot na hinahanap ko.

Ngunit ngayon, naiisip ko, ano nga ba ang pinagkaiba?
Kahit noong tag-ulan, naaalala pa rin kita.
Naaalala ko kung paano kita sinasabihang mag-iingat ka
At kung paano kita pinaiyak dahil sa isang sala.
Naaalala ko rin kung paano mo ako iniwan
At kung paano kita hinayaan.

Kaya ngayong wala ka na, wala akong magawa
Kundi mainis sa lahat ng bagay na nagpapaalala
Hindi sa'yo, kundi sa aking mga nagawa
Para umalis ka at iwanan mo akong mag-isa.