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marvin m brato Aug 2018
Maybe this time
A true love is mine.

Vanity was my love in the past,
A new dawn has come at last.
Never again shall I fall in love,
Except to a man I truly love.
Since the time we met,
Sweet feelings I truly felt.
And your love I must get.

Man... what has you got?
Attraction I sense so hot.
This love that i feel,
At this time it is real.
Being in love so dearly,
All happy things I see clearly.
Loving you is everything,
And for you I shall do anything
Over the years to come.
Say it to my ear...
'I LOVE YOU dear, '
Love is a vow,
On this day ever
Now and forever.
marvin m brato Aug 2018
Life is very short

Use it, live to the fullest

death comes any time!
marvin m brato Aug 2018
Is life worth a million,
Or nil at all?

My wife often said
'Dad, you are worth 7 million bucks! '
'Why is that? ' I asked
'Well, you got 6 kids and me! ' she retorted

A million bucks worth each?
Is what I got to invest for my family!
To provide and sustain their basic needs
That their entry to this world
Is my sole responsibility
Including my wife?

My wife bluntly said
'Dad, you cannot die without leaving us 7 million bucks! '
'Why is that? ' I asked
'Well, you have 6 kids and me! ' she stressed out

I knew I can never raise such enormous amount
Not even a one hundred thousand buck in a year's work
But my wife always demands for it every time I feel sick
That I have to give her 7 million bucks before I die
Later I realized that I cannot just die yet with diabetes
Because my wife wants me to hand over 7 million bucks!

That's how my wife appraise my life's worth
She always emphasize that I should not just die soon
Because I have not yet able to make the 7 million bucks
My only ticket for leaving 6 kids and my wife.
marvin m brato Jul 2018
I cherish music
But can't play a tune
I love songs
But can't even sing
I know
I can't be a musician
But my heart is full
With saccharine melodies

Life for me
Is sort of a lullaby
that flows in variables
From ballad to acoustic
Or country beats to modern
Whatever kind it may be
My existence is a composition
From which derive innate melody

Music is an expression
Contains ardent sentiments
That decipher the mysteries
In songs played in the heart
The love, hate or ennui
Stimulate the emotions
Enthused influx of inspirations
Stimulate life's meaning

I can not feel life
as a poet
If the music dies
marvin m brato Jul 2018
You said you love me,
But how on earth can it be?
When you are not free,
As you are married, you see!

Maybe you are blinded by your feeling,
When you confessed that to me you are falling.
Have you thought about what you just said?
Did you not believe my love can not be paid?

I may look pretty to your eyes,
But please do not tell me lies!
About you truly in love with me,
For I know such can never be.

I know that your only desire is lust,
Most men feel such urge is a must.
When there appears a chance to say,
To a gal like me mistaken I want to play.

Sorry my dear for I can not afford,
To indulge In such act without accord.
I can not dare to say yes to your desire,
For me its kind of verboten that causes fire.

So for now let us just be friends,
And not go what others call trends.
Indulging in having extra-marital affair,
For in God's eyes its sin and never fair.

I tell you again my persistent suitor,
Please stop now and do not detour.
Love only your wife who loves you back,
And do not persist on me for its not tack.
marvin m brato Jul 2018
Oh Philippines
how lucky you are
to raise Filipinos
who brought honors
to your land and race

Manny Pacquiao
among the greatest
athletes ever existed
in the world of boxing

Leah Salonga
among the best
singers ever performed
in the world of performers

And many are encouraged
to follow their footsteps
truly a Filipino dream
to become Filipino pride
marvin m brato Jul 2018
Philippine, my motherland!
how beautiful you are to know and see
in being a thousand islands to venture
landscapes quite panoramic, beaches white
i adore being a Filipino born to live here
people so nice keep smiling amidst poverty
peace loving, honest, caring and sincere
in close family ties is the legacy we have
never to abandon our culture as Filipinos
even when foreigners shall come to conquer
stand for sovereignty and never surrender.
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