We're chasing the mirage
so vigorously now
we didn't even notice
that somewhere somehow
reality slipped away.

Remember the time when
in the alley behind my house
how we used to run
when we were kids!
Our moms would get tired
shouting our names
and we'd be lost in the games
of dungeons and dragons.
And we had all these dreams,
dreams of flying
like the superman,
dreams of building
biggest castles with the sand,
dreams of finding
homes of those butterflies,
dreams of catching
the rainbows in the skies!

I don't quite understand
what adulthood has done to me,
the gift of surprise and wonder
has been taken away unknowingly.
I still see all these things
But nothing comes across as new
All the emotions that I still feel
I want to make sure
At least one of them is really true.

I'm tired of all this made up stuff
tired of all the grown up tricks
what use are my skills and expertise
If I can't even feel my heart beats.


Would you hold my hand?
Lets try to find our haven!
We won't have a map okay?
We're going to follow the rhythm.

Far out in the distance I do see
the clouds, and I just want to be,
beneath one of them and wonder,
As they float away and thunder!

Dance along the swift sun rays
as they filter through the boughs,
laugh with the rustling leaves
on which the evening light glows!

All we need is
some good thoughts
beating wild
in a few good hearts!

And trust me
we'll do our best
to make this world
a better place! :)

for my twenty year-old self
i hope you give out kindness and happiness
i hope you accept and tolerate differences and flaws
i hope that, when people see you or hear your name,
they would remember feeling at ease
i hope you comfort people who are hurt
i hope you surround people with peace.

i'd also like to ask you,
to not put yourself in the flame, for the sake of others,
to make them warm, when,
all they ever do is hurt you, and let you down
you matter
so, leave them behind, stand up, look up and ahead
always move forward
for your mind and body are for your heart, soul, and passion
people should not cross the line to change that fact.
these people are told not to hurt, and
if they do,
please leave and save yourself
please know that, your twenties, and the rest of your life,
don't belong to anyone else but,
you, your decision, your wishes and hopes.

i hope you have a good life
one you can always remember and cherish
and when adulthood is tiring, you can always look back
to your five year-old self, rooting for you
to your teenage self, your sixteen year-old self,
dreaming about you and all the good things coming your way
take a break, take a breath,
you can always get up, and start again.

*i love you, and i forgive the past

You look up with those big eyes
of yours, while talking about the
things you

once loved

while hiding promises you’ve
recklessly made to others. Then
secrets spill into your

heart.

And with a mischievous
gleam in your smile, you list the
ways you’ll conquer the world, all
with the

eloquence of a child.

But you still cling to everything
and nothing, as if you’ve lived for
a very
long
time.

Before I go to sleep, read me
A bedtime story,
Read me
a bedtime story.

I would like to be young again.

That I could wake in solace
From the sleepless dream of a child's stage
Where the world is of no concern,
but only fairies and knights reside.

Such magic can only be found in their eyes.

If we could never wake up to reality
To face the crippling truth that there is no such
Happiness
In the blossoming of adulthood,
Then every day of our lives would be
Beautiful.

Every day
would end with the last pages
Of a happy ever after.