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 Aug 2017 Faith Lorelei
XIII
Nakakalungkot
na tayo'y binabalingungoy
sa sarili nating wika.

*It's sad,
that our noses bleed,
using our own language.
In Filipino slang, to "have a nosebleed" is to have serious difficulty conversing in English with a fluent or native English speaker.
 Aug 2017 Faith Lorelei
Perri
Push
 Aug 2017 Faith Lorelei
Perri
I'm going to push you
So far away
With every force in my body
And curl back up into the little ball
I call home
Because it is safe in here
And the shell grows stronger
With every man who leaves me reaching
Until one day
It is impenetrable
Please just go away

— The End —