I hide a river inside my heart
And I bury that heart in the woods
River flows to a waterfall
The waterfall drops into the seas
All the seas make up the great ocean
The great oceans make up the whole world
So no matter where my heart would rest
Waters will flood all the continents
Because my heart couldn't contain them

I hide a river inside my heart
And darling, you will be drowning

Everyone swears I'm a tough girl but you don't know that. You've never seen it. I lose all the fight in me in your company and just crash into you easy. Muscles cease to tense up, relaxing. Alcohol tolerance, dropping. I am flirty. I am clingy. I am cheesy. I am jealous. In the safety of you, I allow myself to be comfortable and vulnerable. I find no need to watch myself. They say falling in love is a matter of chance. But I knew I decided on this. In your company, I am safe. In your safety, I chose you. And so I let myself.

Because I look at you
And my memory fails me
I forgot other people's silhouettes
Just to give space inside my brain
For the stubble on your chin
The lines around your intense eyes
Where your cheek bones incline and decline
The dews on your lips I like kissing
And how everything adds up
To the face I always miss seeing

I look at old friends
And in idle moments when my head is free
I stare at them and it's like seeing them for the first time
I realize I have not been looking hard enough
Get too caught up with the mundane
The casual talks and dates
Inductive, I go beyond the entirety of the face
And start with the features then zoom out
I am taken aback at how foreign they seem to me suddenly

How many lifetimes do I need to remember everyone else's faces?
I just spent a night memorizing yours

Nakakapaso
Sementong kalsada
Sa tanghaling tapat
Bilad sa sikat ng araw

Unang buhos ng ulan
Pagkatapos ng tag-init
Sisingaw ang init
Makakahinga ang lupa

It's crazy to be this close to you
And still be angry at the space in between.
Maybe this is why people marry--
To be so close, there's only one of the two of us.

Everything our feet step into
We try to turn into homes
If it never quite feels like one
We leave it earlier than
The ones that do turn familiar
Call it homesickness
But we also leave new familiar shelters
Seats warm, feet cold
Sheets messy, faces comfortably ugly
Call it growth and adventure
TL;DR We always leave

When was the consensus made
That I was to be every man's safety net
For when they gamble on somebody
Somebody else that isn't me

He was an acrobat who felt his best midair
She wasn't a safety net ready to catch, she is also falling
She is a house of cards tumbling down for a game not worth all the rupees
But a card game needing a gambler all the same