You walked away
and then I was suddenly healed.

Don't stand so close to me,
I might love you.

I have lost count of all the autumns
that we should be together,
the last time the leaves fell,
was our last fall.

ika-labintatlo ng Agosto,
naghihintay ako ng sulat mo.
Maghapong nag-aabang sa tapat ng pintuan
inaasahang darating ang kartero
dala dala ang liham
ngunit walang napala, marahil ito na ang hinihintay na babala.

Why do you keep on studying me
like I am some kind of theology or new philosophy
that will open your mind to an enlightenment
or solve an unsolved mystery?

You may be the sine qua non in my every breathing.

I am seduced by your intelligent, intelligent mind

I have won every battle that scarred my soul,
I can now kiss thunder and throw lightning and dance with earthquakes as if its beats I control.

She warned you
to touch gently her fragile heart
but you came full force
with hurricanes and war tanks.

Cotton candy kisses
Blood-rushing roller coaster ride
Spinning high like a ferris wheel
Lovin' this hiding and seeking
That's what we felt when we entered this carnival love life

And I just stole the antidote.

Freed from the spell cast when I fell deep into the wishing well of your cursive letters that formed the ribs that caged my heart and chained it to your expanding lungs that exploded and took all the air that I breathe.
I died, but then I am free again.

And she made him dance through the darkness
as if there were spotlights and showgirls

You make me feel sadness,
the kind of sadness that is art.

Words became wine that got us drunk and made us believe we will be forever unheard on this galaxy full of poetry

She worked like an aromatherapy
and affected him like a curse
he won't be able to escape

Why have you given in to the call of another lover?

Do not worship me.
I'm just a monk
leading you to eternity divine.

He touched her.
And in awe,
he looked at her like she was a love spell.

He's much more like an illegal drug,
waiting to be opened
so he can **** you.

He did not put her on a pedestal
nor made her his queen.
Instead,
he wrote her and made her his favorite song.

White is the happiness on her wedding dress.
So pure and radiating.
But white can also be the cruelest of colors
for it brought sadness alone,
the day they covered his tombstone.

It has been raining peonies and carnations
since you said "hi"
and I have been walking on
cherry blossom-covered pavement eversince.

So I would like to take a rest.

Because my hands are swollen
from writing your name
over and over and over again.

Because my eyes forgot how to blink
whenever I see you buy coffee
in that cafe along 7th street.

Because my ears only hear
your deep voice
and triggers the fault lines in my body
waiting to attack like an earthquake
and cause major damages including butterflies, no, dinosaurs in my stomach.

Because my nose hallucinates your smell.

Because my lips long to call you all day,
all night, every hour of my life.

My senses go crazy and becomes uncoordinated.
My knees go weaker and I can't move but still smile like an idiot at the thought of your being.
You make my head spin
and you make my heart twirl
like a circus girl.

I beg you to stop sleepwalking in my dreams!
Your once unfamiliar face keeps on popping up like a surprise.
I tried to shove your ghost into the darkness,
into the abyss of my subconsciousness
but you keep on escaping with the ladder my heart made.
I vowed not to ever think of you again -
to make you a stranger once more.
But the heart is cruel,
It plays and gambles
until I lose to it.
This heart is very cruel indeed.

I whispered my words,
enveloped them,
and sealed them
with a little bit of loving.

Let me hear you strum my hearstrings
and let me sing the tune of your soul.
Let's create a melody,
A harmony that is you and me.

Don't search for my sanity anymore,
it
followed
you
far away.

Please don't break my wrist.
We can hold hands,
but not too tight.

Why do you have to throw rocks on my window?
You can just climb the mango tree and yell my name.
I promise I'll open my curtains and look at you like how Juliet looked at Romeo for the first time.
But please, don't die.

Help me!
I'm on the e
                   d
                   g
                   e,
                         One more touch
and I'd become ear-cutting Van Gogh insane.

I can sleep tonight
because your voice
reminded me
of grandma's lullaby

I hid the photographs
under my bed
so I have token to look at
when I want to hear your laughter
again.

Longing for your
rainbow sherbet sweet teases

The way his eyes told her
What a beauty she is,
Made Venus embarrassed

I wanna whisper all my experiences to you
But you turned your ears away
So I stopped my stories
And started my opinions

You were fooled by his 1s and 0s
you thought
"01101001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101"
says he likes you,
when he really told you
"I hate you"

Dearest Pluto,
How did you feel?
When 'planet' was taken away from you?
Dearest Pluto,
How did you feel?
When 'planet' was given again to you?

Your left-handed lover
is never on her right mind
but you dearly love her
proving that love is blind

He painted the wind
and gave it a color
She tasted and sinned
cursing that it was bitter

Overwhelmed by your galaxy
swimming through the river of stars,
this innocent soul,
in no time,
will be consumed by your black hole

The way you write things
has saved my unsaved spirit
and made me want to run in meadows
and make the dead flowers and grass jealous
because I was revived
by the blues you wrote

I have created a beautiful contract
between your poetry and mine
But
it was broken
when I tragically, accidentally, hopelessly ended it.