Lystra Barraquias

Lystra Barraquias Sep 2014

Goodbye to decisions made
Out of confusion
Out of extreme emotion

Goodbye to the one whom you could have loved
The boy you shoved
Further and further away
Out of Fear
Don't dare shed a tear

Goodbye 16
Goodbye my dear.

Can't wait to face 17's challenges! MOVING ON HERE I GO!!

#growingup #birthday

Lystra Barraquias Sep 2014

Don't.

Don't you dare fall in love with me
I'll hurt you.
For selfish reasons
I'm a wolf clothed in sheepskin

Don't let me get underneath yours

I come not from a broken past
But something's happened within
A heart that avoids everything

I'll lure you in

You'll be my taste test
Chewed on and spat out
Discarded cud on the mud

Don't you dare fall in love with me
Cause I'm not broken
And can never be fixed
I'm a rose with thorned stems
Hold me and you'll bleed
Let me go...

Let me go
It's better for us.
If that's so

Lystra Barraquias Sep 2014

Kaibigan? Ka-IBIG-an.

“Kaibigan” ang tawag ko sayo.
“Kaibigan” ang turing ko sayo.
Ngunit ang puso ko ay litong-lito.

Iniibig ka paminsan.
Iniibag ka.

Friendzone ang peg?

#friendzone

Lystra Barraquias Sep 2014

Catch Me

When I felt my lips slowly form your name, I stopped
Speaking.
Afraid that my whisper would draw you in...
Breathing.
I carefully drew all my love to my chest
Fearing.
That you might see the scars I hide
Thinking.
If it may be so... my fragile heart will be dropped
Breaking.
Much like a butterfly pierced with glass pin
Failing:
To flutter her two-wings off the waxed casket
Falling.
Deeper and deeper in your mind:
Loving.

Lystra Barraquias Sep 2014

Box of Souvenirs

There are a lot of things I want to forget
But you're not part of them.
Things that I will always regret
You're one of them.

Escapades that leave me doubting
If they ever even ended
My heart continues to feel the sting
From the story that shouldn't have happened

Lystra Barraquias Aug 2014

Babbles and Drabbles

Writers love other writers
Sympathy and Empathy.
The way an orchestra plays its symphonies

They harmonize with each other
With words woven and sewn together
A place where books are their safe haven

Condensed in pages are feelings that are tirelessly sought
A fellow writer would've captured the thought