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japheth Jul 2018
you’re deep underwater
you crawl up into a ball
you know the water has already went inside your lungs
but still,
you breathe.

you pray that maybe,
you’ll get used to breathing underwater
—with your eyes closed and mouth shut.
you scream so loud though only the water hears you,
doing anything but comfort you.

for the longest time,
you have felt this way
and i can’t blame you
i’ve been there too.

but i want you to open your eyes
even if all you can see is the darkness, open them.
i want you to move your arms, swim.
i want you to realize,
you’ve been sinking yourself all this time.
if only you stretched your feet,
you’ll feel the floor so close to you.
i want you to stand up and get out of that pool
you’ve always thought was an ocean.

now you’re head’s above water,
you stretch your arms,
you know the air has already went inside your lungs
and now,
you breathe.
japheth Jul 2018
have you ever
expressed your feelings
using a language
you barely know?

have you ever
spoken to someone
about the pain you’ve been
through pictures?

have you ever
wrote about
your happiness
using a marker on a sticky note?

have you ever felt like
no matter what you do,
it still feels like
the world doesn’t understand you?
emotional language barrier
japheth Jul 2018
i’m not going
to let your ghost
haunt me.
never. i still believe what i did was right. u dont get to be the victim here.
japheth Jul 2018
minsan,
mapapaisip ka na lang
kung tama bang bumitaw ka
sa isang taong di sayo susuko.

minsan,
mapapaisip ka na lang
kung tama bang umalis ka
sa relasyong alam **** ikakasira mo.

minsan,
mapapaisip ka na lang
kung tama bang nawala ka
sa mundong ibinigay niya sayo.

andaming minsan
na pumapasok sa utak mo
pero,

madalas
mapapaisip ka na lang
na tama yung ginawa mo
kasi kailangan **** unahin
sarili mo.
here’s another piece i made in “tagalog”

rough translation:

sometimes

sometimes,
you’ll think about
if it was right for you to let go
of the person who would never give up on you.

sometimes,
you’ll think about
if it was right for you to leave
a relationship you know will destroy you.

sometimes,
you’ll think about
if it was right for you to disappear
from the world that he gave you.

there’s a lot of “sometimes”
that comes into my mind
but,

often,
you’ll think about
that what you did was right
because you need to out yourselft first.
japheth Jul 2018
i love you enough
to hold you tight,

i love you enough
to tell you what’s wrong or right,

i love you enough
to tell you “no”

i love you enough
to let you go
japheth Jul 2018
i could have let go
as early as i could
if only
i looked down
and saw
that you weren’t
holding my hand
and i was holding your arm.
you ever felt like you were alone even when you’re in the relationship?
japheth Jul 2018
you painted me like a beautiful picture:

one with our future ahead of us,
one with both of us laughing.

there were strokes of anger
of pain,
of our fights,
but looking at it now,
the aggressiveness of your brush
definitely highlighted the beauty
of the painting:

it showed
the wrinkles of our face when we smile,
the creases of your clothes forming lines towards my arms holding you close,
the light in your eyes when you look at me — as if the world meant to me and i was the only who deserve it.

however,
you left me in a single room.
i thought maybe, i was that special.
that i was one of — or better yet your greatest masterpiece.

as you smiled,
i felt happy.
i thought maybe this was it.
a painting you’re so proud to show the world.

you crept towards the door
went for the switch and turned the lights off.

and just like that, i waited for months
for the lights to go back on.

i knew in my heart,
that this beautiful painting i thought was your masterpiece,
became one of your hidden collections,
that only you could exclusively see.

just like what you did,
to the others before me.
i’m in a rut guys. i’m sorry. starting today i will be in a social media hiatus — a cleanse so to speak. i need to think of myself first. don’t worry though, i’ll keep writing during this days so good luck to me.
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