"I love you too"*

*It is the magic word
that changes her world

Are you awake
Enough to be
An overseer
Of liberty

Do you see
Both far and wide
Out beyond
Some foolish pride

To tolerate
To liberate
To inspire
Another
Human's fate

And if so
And I know if you really know
You have been here before
In this humanistic role
Don't stop believing
You're nearing your goal
....

~
I'm still afraid sometimes
to even close my eyes
because I know
that right beside me
it is there that you stand.
At first I sense it
feeling tingles up my spine
then you softly but surely
take my fragile hand

I absorb the moment
it's just like old times
allowing myself to fully feel it
flowing emotions, like words that rhyme.
It was just so effortless
'me and you'
yet it wasn't meant to be
a love that ended way too soon

We know how and we know why
and I still lose a precious part of you
each time I breathe a sigh.
Perhaps when
each part of you has finally gone
I'll be more certain that the
'you and me' are done

I'll no longer be so afraid
to gently close my eyes
it'll be 'me' and 'myself'
and quiet empty sighs
You'll never again
be so close beside me
or softly take my hand,
I'll just be closing my eyes
to drift off and dream of
the treasured life we'd planned

~

How do you form
Such feelings with rhymes
Surely words can't lift
Your heart every time
But when you pen
Your heart beats mine
How do you convey
Such feelings with rhymes

How will they see
The desperate me
And feel the pain
Flow as I bleed
Knowing the longing
Has yet to break free
What will become
If I can't get no relief
So
Tell me your method
Your motives
Your mind
How do you form
Such feelings with rhyme
...

Please remember to break me gently
Take your sharp tongue and slice me tenderly
With your offenses destroy me lovingly

Paano ba simulan ang isang tula?
O dapat ba ito'y hayaang ilapat ng tadhana.
Tulad ng isang gabing mahiwagang
May simula kahit di sinimulan, magkakawakas nang di winawakasan.

Kung saan sana'y di na nagtitigan kasing lalim ng kalawakan
Di na nagtawanan sa gitna ng Univ. Ave.
Mumunting pigurang di umiilag sa sasakyan
Ngunit patuloy ang pagbangga sa isa't isa.

Kung saan sana'y di na hinawakan itong kamay
Kung sa pagbitaw, mas matinding kapasuan.
At sa mata ng buwan, sa baba ng tulay sa Philcoa
Di na sana hinagkan na parang tayo'y sa isa't isa.

Paano nga ba sinisimulan ang isang tula?
Bakit ito'y mahirap kumpara sa pagwawakas?
Maaaring madaliin pag nais na
O basta na lang iwan sa kalagitnaan.

Pero ang mga tula, ay mga marka.
Itatago ko't babalik-balikan
Parang noong gabing tayo'y naglalakad
At andiyan ka pa.

I hid within my shadow world
And held my breath too long
These holes within are empty parts
Where your memories belong

I saw you in the distance
I know you saw me too
I turned my head and walked away
I think I'm turning blue
.....

Looking back
Is a part of mind
It's a part of living
As our lives unwind

No love forgotten
No heart un-broke
Life goes on
No
You're not a ghost
.......