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283 · Aug 2017
ditty
kahel Aug 2017
9:55 PM
13/08/2017



my love,
i still caught myself listening to our song,
forgive me but this will be the last queue,
for being anchored on the love we uncover.
271 · Jan 2021
your name
kahel Jan 2021
it is i,
who wrote letters with no address,
because each and every word,
is your name.
you have me ever since
265 · Sep 2021
uno
kahel Sep 2021
uno
palagi na lamang huli sa balita
kaya kapag may nalaman
ay wala na akong magawa
kung hindi tanggapin na lamang
ang katotohanang sinisiyasat

palagi na lang akong huli sa kahit anong larangan
laging nauunahan at pinapangunahan
kailan kaya matatauhan

kailan kaya ako uunahin?
262 · Aug 2018
serenity
kahel Aug 2018
i watch her fall asleep
peaceful and beautiful
as i follow her dreams
sweet into the deep
i whisper to her ear
love that i must keep


—m.c
262 · Jul 2021
katapusan
kahel Jul 2021
ang inialay ay lubos
patuloy lang ibubuhos
hanggang puso’y mapaos
hanggang sa maupos
hanggang sa maubos
kailan nga ba 'to matatapos
kahel Jul 2022
mas pinili ko na lisanin ka kaysa manatili

dahil sinta, pinagkait mo sa’kin ang pagkakataong mahalin tayong dalawa ng sabay.
249 · Sep 2017
sugar
kahel Sep 2017
it was a cold night,
covered with blankets,
"let me make your coffee", i said.
she sipped from that scorching mug,
ranting how brewed it was,
asking, "where's the sugar, love?"
i smiled back,
then
swiftly kissed her.
and whispered,
"there you go, let me spill it all over your ******* lips."
245 · Mar 2020
i just write.
kahel Mar 2020
some people think “i just write”,
trust me,
i do,
but they don’t know that there’s so much story
veracity,
sincerity,
heartbreaks,
landslides,
sacrifices,
c­ourage,
in between words,
in this world,
it takes me to pour everything,
in what “i just write”.
sometimes, its best to let the words introduce themselves.
242 · Apr 2021
by your side
kahel Apr 2021
i could be anywhere
i could be in hell,
i could be in heaven,
i could be at the bus stop,
at the shed waiting for a train,
or at my window staring until it rains,
but despite of delays and advances,
i would still choose you,
through ups and downs,
there’s no in between,
if this will be my last day,
i’ll spend every moment with my day one;
my divine.
i want to be by your side.
i feel safe when you are around, when you hold me in your arms, everything's become warmth and peace.
233 · Apr 2018
20/20
kahel Apr 2018
you are
the lens
through which
i saw
life
224 · Mar 2021
you are driving me crazy
kahel Mar 2021
you are driving me crazy
running circles on my mind
with protective gears and all
but maybe,
it should be me who needs to wear them right?
you’re drifting recklessly,
switching lanes frequently,
crashing your way through destructively
in a weird orange-coloured car.
i can’t get you out of my mind
222 · Sep 2021
bawat saglit ay may kapalit
kahel Sep 2021
siguro, pinagtagpo tayo para lamang bigyan ng buhay ang buhay.

kahit saglit, kahit may naghihintay na kapalit—

sa saya, sa lungkot, at sa piling mo.
palitan ng pagmamahal
mga puso’y napagal
mga oras na bumagal
mga galit na natanggal
at tayo na hindi tumagal
212 · Jan 2021
unyieldingly
kahel Jan 2021
Sometimes, I feel that I still miss you. Not in the sense that I want us to  be together again, because as much as I know that what we had was a beautiful mess, I also know that it died long before our goodbye that Wednesday under the moonlight. I miss you in the sense that when I walk down the hallway of memories that I've known all my life, that there are days when I would just pause, take a deep breathe, gently close my eyes and remembering us walk side-by-side,
we are lost souls blathering about uncovering our own rightful place in this absurd fantasy. I miss you peeking through the shelves of our favourite library, obviously annoyed that it's taking me so long to pick which Murakami book to get to read.

But I think that I'm okay now, but there are really just some honest days, especially when time restraining me alone.
when I couldn't sleep and my mind will cheat on me and wonder about what it would be like if only we didn't drift away from each other. If only we stayed on the same path a little longer and worked things out. Today, as I write this letter— a piece of my heart. I'm starting to forget the sound of your laugh or the way you teases me.


Your alluring face is a bit hazy in my head now.

Your eyes began to shine a bit more dim like the sky when it is crying. But I still miss you in the sense that when I come across with the little things that remind me of you, things we both shared somehow like our  favourite series to get our *** laugh as hard or our love song to vibe on.
There is just really a part of me that just breaks unyieldingly and missing you is the only thing that I could do.
200 · Oct 2021
retrograde
kahel Oct 2021
when i met you,
there were no questions

when you left me,
there were no answers
198 · Sep 2021
sigaw ng bawat letra
kahel Sep 2021
sumusulat sa’yo simula nang ‘yong pagdating

sumusulat sa’yo hanggang sa ‘yong paglisan

sumusulat sa’yo sa pagitan ng lupa’t kalangitan

sumusulat sa’yo  kakabit na ng ‘yong pag-ibig; ang tinta sa aking mumunting libro ng mga pangako.

‘balik ka na’—sigaw ng bawat letra.
hanggang mapaos
hanggang malaos
hanggang maubos
susulatan ka, oh aking minahal nang lubos~
198 · Jan 2021
my first tragedy
kahel Jan 2021
your finely drawn diamond-like brown eyes.
those eyes they never lie, i knew when our eyes met - it's going to be my first downfall. my first disaster. my first encounter to an absurd dream.
190 · Jun 2023
nakauwi na
kahel Jun 2023
nakaipit sa pagitan ng trapiko
na para bang walang dulo
siksikan sa mga sasakyang nasa kalye
pagod, init, at usok
pero 'pag nabasa ko ang mensahe
na mula sa’yo
pakiramdam ko nakauwi na 'ko
pagkatapos ng isang mahabang araw, pagod ay napupukaw
187 · Mar 2020
for all you do
kahel Mar 2020
we’re living in a distracted world, 
with fantasies that bubbles our mind,
full of barely controlled chaos,
but then i remembered the feeling,
when your eyes locked onto mine,
focusing, listening, hearing, caring,
the comfort and pleasure you once made
is cannot be measured,
not by words, some stranger or even an event.

i am grateful for all you do;
because i can state the fact that,
when my life overwhelms and does me in,
consumes me and destroys me,
you make everything all right,
and on that moment,
you became my everything,
you are everything that i believed was right.
time, took you away. it took us for granted
175 · Jan 2020
halik
kahel Jan 2020
para akong nasindak
epekto na din siguro ng alak
nagsimula na din ang luha sa pagpatak
bigla ka na lamang umalis
‘di na ako nakapagisip
‘di ko na din nasagip
bumitaw ka sa kamay ko kahit mahigpit
sa sobrang bilis
matagal din tayo nagtiis
sa pait at tamis
pero sulit naman ‘di ba?

matanong ko lang,
kailan ka ba babalik?
babalik ka pa ba?

halika,
dahil kailangan ko ang iyong halik.
158 · Jan 2018
Her
kahel Jan 2018
Her
I love her so bad that,
I forgot to hate myself

I love her so bad that,
I didn't have to question it

I love her so bad that,
I even began to get out of bed early instead of not at all,
just to see her lovely face

I love her so bad that,
I didn't even notice all the wilted flowers inside of me,
are starting to grow back

I love her so bad that,
I needed to shift my body clock

I love her so bad that,
I feel to trust myself again

I love her so bad that,
I finally cleaned up my own mess in life

I love her so bad that,
I would try to discover new things

I love her so bad that,
I stopped slumping my shoulders

I love her so bad that,
I am starting to believe in miracles

I love her so bad that,
I started to look people in their eyes


I love her so bad that,
Her arms made me want to be wrapped in forever

I love her so bad that,
Her eyes made me want to get lost within


I love her so bad that,
Her lips made me a sinner

I love her so bad that,
Her smile made me a fool that never resist

I love her so bad that,
she made me want to move forward and get better,
and swear she does.

I love you,
so good that I learned to fall in love with myself.
158 · Feb 2020
four in the morning
kahel Feb 2020
i came to you alone,
lonely as a grocery store parking lot at four a.m,
a coffee in my right hand,
and a cigarette on the other,
sat down beside you,
we make jokes,
laughter’s echoing in every corner,
as soon as the sun is waking up,
we’re both blowing smoke rings pretending that they are haloes,
our eyes intertwine,
i asked myself,
could i believe in the magic?
it happened before my eyes. even before i realized that i was already under her spell

should i believe in the magic?
153 · Jun 2022
here i am again
kahel Jun 2022
here i am again,
a blank sheet of paper in front of me
a pen in my right hand
and a glass of whisky on the other,
i’m wondering how could my words ever do justice to you?

the warmth,
the kindness,
the moans,
the sighs,
the tantrums,
the grace on those pains,
the groove when you dance,
the lilt in your laugh,
the vestiges of nights we spent,

and i asked myself
what i’ll have left to write
when my love for you bleeds all my words out of me.
145 · Aug 2020
delusion
kahel Aug 2020
he have been sleeping on his dreams lately
while taking a trip down the memory lane
he saw her and asked, "do i mean to you?"

—then he wakes up uneasy and will never know the truth for the rest of his life.
142 · Oct 2020
it was real
kahel Oct 2020
I want you to be around with me,
near me,
heal me,
this year, next year, and every year
and letting me assert every possible word for you to hear
because you deserve everything, for real
you’ve been here for every tear
embraced me for every fear
so stay even for a while
and let’s share the fruit of our love to bear
be here with me,
it’s an unconditional deal
even though it sounds surreal
we both know it was real.
130 · Jul 2021
do they?
kahel Jul 2021
there was a time when every part of me belonged to her, loving her feels like a tournament. in my archaic life, she became the pigment. she’s my excitement, my torment, my precious moment. to be honest, i enjoyed every bit of her madness while we’re together. i hope life’s giving her a good life, serving the happiness i wanted for her. but all our wishes do not come true. do they?
i wish it came true, for us.
111 · Jun 2020
midnight train
kahel Jun 2020
i look at the clock and it’s already midnight
and the only thing that shines
are your eyes
brighter than the moonlight
they're focused on mine
talking with no more lies
a bottle of a bittersweet wine
we shared and every taste was beyond divine
decided to lie down on the middle of a park
stars twinkled
our bodies intertwined
souls are barely naked
entangled and stranded
they're like scrabbling vines
tonight, you are solely mine
there’s no reason to hide
we will live for the truth
we will love for the truth
holding hands
coping hearts
let’s have veracious conversations
and discern different salvations
until the sun return to its self-vacation
my only destination
—my last station, you.
103 · Jan 2020
uncharted
kahel Jan 2020
love isn’t a good morning text
or some other slanted
minuscule gesture
it is a presence looming
craving to capture you
enveloping you in your entirety
but look, here we are waiting
on a box of sweets
on a bouquet of tulips
or a wrapped gift
or a handwritten letter
perhaps if that’s what love has become
then i shall hope i find something better
there must be something more
103 · Jan 2018
grasp
kahel Jan 2018
I was prepared to share
my dreams with you-
but that alone
would not do,
you had to own me.
through and through;
you had to have it all...

so instead you crept
into my head;
day-by-day stole
my thoughts away,
until there was nothing left of me
but a hollow, sorrowful shell.
71 · Jan 2018
your smile
kahel Jan 2018
there you are with those alluring smile,
as if the sun rises from the west,
and the moon shaped into square,
i have never seen anything before,
but yours is just like it.
extraordinary.
enough.
56 · Jan 2020
A Poet’s Dilemma
kahel Jan 2020
I cannot help myself to put it all down
On a piece of paper, on the palm of my hand, I just don't know where to put it,
I cannot keep it all to myself,
This is the only way I know,
My kind of way,
Writing all our pages, beginning to ending
Every single thought, even the tiniest thing i love about you
The things i hate about you but makes me
realize how lucky I am to have you.

I know you do not like when I’m nostalgic
Digging up things about stuff, from past and to the future,
Or repeating same topics or words over and over again,
Knowing everything about me was nightmare, I couldn’t disagree with that.
Maybe it is worst than you could’ve ever imagined.
Fighting our own demons and conquering every places we explore every day.
But I think it all matters, to Us.
Because everyone knows about You and I,
But nobody knows about Us, but Us.
The protagonists in our own tale.


I can't wait for you to recognize these stories
I wonder how will you act as if you haven't even heard it.
These scenarios like the first time you said you loved me,
or remember that time on the rooftop
As the moon smiles,
We drank wine and had good laugh.
Or that day when everything falls apart,
The day I lost you.


Sorry for writing poems about you
The happy ones,
The melancholy ones,
The ineffable ones,
I know that you hate it,
that I got more to say
But I had to and I
Promise no one will ever know that every moment with you was real,
That are love was true,
That once we are called lovers,
All the mistakes we made
And why you ran away.

I should’ve done something,
I should’ve stopped you that time,
I’m stuck in between:
“Fight for her or let her go,”
Maybe it’s inevitable,
So I pour my heart out with my pen,
Endlessly, sleeplessly, hopelessly
Until the ink runs out,
Until the coffee gets cold,
Until the idea of you became extinct,
Until then,
I’ll just be here in my unsubstantial world.
Without you,
My unending tragedy.
P.S. I love you. To be honest, I don’t think if I can unloved you and it *****.
53 · Jan 2020
instant
kahel Jan 2020
knowing you was like
understanding what a bird chirps
or how do giraffe sleeps
like understanding why
the universe is wide and infinite
understanding you was like
figuring out how someone can be
nothing to everything
in an instant

— The End —