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Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
We are carried through time
With the back and forth
Motion of tides:
Close enough to touch
Far enough to distance
But never to forget--
One does not simply
Forget you.
Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
From such great heights
He stoops down low
To lift my head
Without a care
Of what this looks like

With steady hands
He stitches up
The wounds time left
To make anew
The first of spring

He made me whole
Oh how he dared
Defied the odds
Through stormy seas
To win me over

And there we went
To distant lands
To such great heights
To ocean floors
We walked on water
Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
She does not need a controversy in order to be relevant. Relevance stands on its own; it is a level onto itself.

The words of a relevant woman are never unkind nor twisted. They speak life. Most of all, they speak truth--the whole truth and nothing but. The marks of a relevant woman are faith and obedience--to be the person God called her to be, and to fulfill whatever her life's purpose may be.

For relevance does not beg for attention. It is not clothed in selfishness or vanity. Rather, it is clothed in God and His glory is where she draws her confidence.

That is why her relevance goes beyond her--it's out of this world. And also why the world will look and take notice of her.
Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
"You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole.

You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear.

It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.) And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other.

And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.

P.S. You have to be brave."
From author Jeanette Winterson
Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
How easy it would be
To blurt out every feeling
The words being carried
Through every current
Only to get lost at sea

How easy it would be
To bring my heart out
In the open wilderness
As dust being swept to
Chase after the wind

How easy it would be
To feed on recklessness
To set fire in December
To launch a thousand ships
And die without a secret
Sam Lichauco Sep 2015
10
A pinch of sadness
Hangs in the air above
From just remembering
You were once here, my love

In dreams I felt you
Those bursting memories
That sang of
Sweet lullabies
Filling the room
That tasted of
Weird ice cream flavors
You begged me to try

The way (only) you found
Such joy in numbers
For every Bulls game
The way (only) you took
Food so personally
You got mad at my friend once
For eating your secret stash of
Lengua de gato

The classical music
Filling the sala on weekends
Your forgetfulness to the steps
When you danced with lola
How you'd rather sing on stage
Than give the speech people were expecting

The things you taught me
How to bowl
(which I still love until today)
How to play chess
(which I still lose until today)
How to eat unhealthy food
(and enjoy)
How to listen to all kinds of music
(from Bocelli to Jennifer Lopez)
How to love your spouse
(for future reference)
How to tell someone they're wrong
(lovingly)

Ten years have gone by
With too many episodes to recount
I look up above
Hoping for your smile to be seen, lab.

So here's to when we meet once again.
It's a bit messy, but---
Happy 10th Eternity Birthday, Lolo Paquito
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