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Sha May 2018
You need to breath, untighten your shoulders, and unclasp your fist.
Tell me with your brows all your worries and I will say prayers.
It's okay to cry. Let the window pane gather your tears and send it to the heavens.
Let the Divine hear of your melancholy and allow him to remove you out of the mud.
Do not resist. Do not be so obsessed with the lies that covered your life.
Remove the dust settled from the window sill of your soul.
You can invite the eternal peace to glitter your sky.
And you can step out of the chains of the past, the regrets, and the hurts.
Dip your hands in the wholeness of freedom because..
Irog, you can be free.
Irog means love
Ernans Tan Jun 2017
This night is known to be sad
But really I am so glad
For every drop is a reminder
Of how lucky I am we’re together

Drops of rain follow the beat
Of my heart that lifts my feet
A million times, it can defeat
The loud thunder that sky greet

It’s loud, I fear my own heart
When you became such a big part
Of my life that I want to restart
To assure nothing will tear us apart

Oh but there are many things that I fear
Like the lightning I can hear
Reminding me of the spark we made
That I wish forever will never fade

Yes, I am in love with the rain
For it’s my drug to cure the pain
It washes away all of my fears
And oddly enough, even my tears

But I’m afraid, of what can be
The rain turn sunny it will be
So please, help me transform
Our years to an endless storm
Ernans Tan Jun 2017
Monday’s gloomy start

To a week, seeking your heart

The pain, needle dart


Tuesday bit draggy

But a few hours a day

And I am happy


Wednesday’s intimate

The turn ons’ legitimate

Proven passionate


Thursday’s a vision

To what would be tomorrow

Years without sorrow


Finally Friday

So the melancholy sway

Away, when you stay
Ernans Tan Jun 2017
I write this as I keep thinking

The thought is frightening

The happening of the worst

Because losing you will hurt


I’m not letting that happen

Not when I have fallen

Deep in the bottomless abyss

From every second we kiss


Not going down without a fight

Struggling through endless night

When I pray to be by your side

I sleep, a tear, empty inside


I need a good reason to fly

So look me straight in the eye

Under the thousand sparkled sky

You’ll never let go saying goodbye
Ernans Tan Jun 2017
Green tea, green tea

Just for my sweetie

Pocky and Kit Kat

Hope you like that


Going around the store

Thinking and looking for

Green tea that reminds me

Of my special baby


Thinking of you everyday

My sadness goes away

You even kiss me just right

As I close my eyes, still bright


Green tea, green tea

Just for my sweetie

You are my kind of girl

That means the whole world
Ernans Tan Jun 2017
Time is nothing without space

Life is nothing without death

Whenever I see your face

I get the feeling when we first met

Feeling of vivid liberation

When you touch me with passion

Feeling of romantic insanity

When you hold me with intimacy

You give me completion

You’ve given me affection

Time is nothing without space

Life is nothing without death

I need you because

Without you, there’s no us.
Irah Joyce Dec 2015
Isa
Isang taong nasasaktan
Isang taong umaasa
Isang taong nagbigay tiwala
Sa isang taong kanyang pinaka mamahal
Isang pagiibigan na nabuo sa loob ng isang taon
Isang magandang relasyon
Nasira ng isang sigalot
Isang pangakong bibitiwan
Ng isang pusong umaasa

Dalawa
Dalawang taong pinagtagpo
Dalawang taong nag-ibigan
Dalawang taong nagbigay kulay
Sa buhay ng isa't isa
Dalawang pusong pinag-isa
Dalawang labing nakangiti sa tuwina
Dalawang matang lumuluha
Dahil ang dalawa'y hindi na isa


Tatlo
Tatlong laruan na nagbuo ng pamilya
Tatlong laruang ginawang anak ng dalawa
Tatlong salita na nagbigay ligaya
Sa pusong tatlong taon ng umaasa
Kung may magmamahal pa ba?
Tatlong minuto kapiling ka ay sapat na
Upang mapawi ang lungkot
at mapalitan ng ligaya
Tatlong masasakit na kataga
Ang naghiwalay ng landas ng dalawa


Apat
Apat na buwan ang hinintay
Bago makamtan ang matamis kong 'OO'
Apat, ang bilang ng letra
sa isang salitang tawag mo sa akin
Noong ika-apat na beses na tayo'y nagkasama doon ka nagtapat sa'kin


Lima
Limang buwan tayong isa
Lima, ang sukat ng aking paa
Na lagi **** pinagtatawanan
Lima, ang bilang ng mga daliri ko
Na lagi **** hawak-hawak
Limang minutong yakap
madalas **** ibinibigay


Anim
Anim ang bilang ng letra
ng iyong pangalan
Anim ang dami ng nais **** alagang hayop
Anim ang bilang ng pagpunta ko sa inyo
Higit pa sa anim na beses kong uulitin ito:
Mahal pa rin kita


Pito
Pitong kontenenteng nais nating lakbayin
Pitong araw sa isang linggo
Mga araw na pinasaya mo ako
Pitong bilyong tao sa mundo
Ikaw ang pinili ko


Walo
Walo, isang numerong mahalaga sa'tin
Walo, isang numerong ginagamit
sa tuwing naglalambingan
Walo kapag pinalitan ang huling letra ng 'a'
Wala, parang tanga


Siyam
Siyam ang araw ng kaarawan ko
Siyam ang numero sa likod ng tshirt mo
Siyam katunong ng pangalan
ng matalik kong kaibigan na nasaktan ko ng lubos
Siyam and dami ng taon na bibilangin
bago matupad ang pangarap nating dalawa


Sampu*
Sampung taon mula ngayon
Ipinangako mo sakin ang isang masayang buhay
Sampung taeon mula ngayon haharap tayong dalawa sa altar
Sampung taon, maghihintay ako
Yan ang pangako ko
Kara Subido Nov 2015
I have been treated like a game and people ask me why.
I just want to sit on the sidelines.
Do you know what it’s like to be looked at as a number,
As flesh, as something that can fulfill someone’s temporary
Needs when all you want is so to be wanted as a person?

You start to believe it. You start to believe you can only
Be beautiful in the context of one night, one picture.
You start to believe you are as shallow as the compliments
That are copied to you and several other people.
You start to believe you have to fight for someone’s
Attention when you should never have to do that.
You start to believe that only certain clothes
make you attractive because when you’re wearing them, they notice you.
You start to believe your opinions don’t matter because
they don’t want to hear them.
You start to believe you will have to settle for an empty
day or week of flirting just so you can feel something.
You start to believe that there isn’t such a thing as love
because no one seems to be looking for it.
At least that’s what I started to believe.
I have lost sleep over people who didn’t even
consider me a loss. I have waited for texts and
phone calls that were never coming.
I have romanticized words and gestures that
were far from romantic.
I have fallen for people only to realize it was
because they pushed me. I have broken my own
heart on the behalf of other people.
I have laid right next to people who might as well
have been 100 miles away.
I have believed words that were empty.
I have let all of this happen in an attempt to find love,
and I have found the opposite.
   Maybe there are people who don’t need or want something
that lasts, something that’s real, something that you want to
share in the morning light and not hide in the night.
Maybe there are people who don’t realize the games they
play have losers. Maybe there are people need nothing
more than a night or a weekend or repeated words.
And I guess all of that is okay. But I am not like that,
and that’s okay.

I want someone that I can fall asleep next to with
a smile on my face. I want someone who doesn’t make
me wait and wonder. I want words that are spoken
just for me. I want to fall for someone with the promise
that they will catch me. I want someone who tries not to
hurt me and cares if they do. I want someone who feels like
they’re right next to me even when they are 100 miles away.
I want to feel something that even scratches
the surface of what love is.
No matter where I go or what I do, you'll always be the one person I hope I can one day come home to.

— The End —