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Jun 2020 · 236
A TINY MAN
Jose Carlito Jun 2020
A tiny man once looked up
He sees the clouds, skyscrapers, and rooftops
And that moment formed a vibrant ambition
The biggest dream among the dreams of the entire nation
Before these buildings were buildings
they were skeletons of lumber and scaffoldings
Before they were dusty skeletons,
they were girders and crossbeams
of metal, hardwood, and concrete
And before they were that,
they were construction plans
Long after that,
they were architectural plans
And what we don't know is in the past
That a tiny man once looked up
And he sees the clouds, skyscrapers, and rooftops
And that moment formed a vibrant ambition
To dream the biggest dream among the entire nation
Jun 2020 · 115
FEAR THE PEOPLE
Jose Carlito Jun 2020
Fear the people
Leaders came from us
As dust formed life
To dust will return
Oppressors will
And shall subside

Fear the people
Fear the revolution
Any walls built
And impede our freedom
Will rise and fall
Like the Berlin wall
Jun 2020 · 125
AFTER GOODWAVES - BAD WAVES
Jose Carlito Jun 2020
We sat talking how happy we felt
And surely, how it couldn't last
We'd have to pay the joyride trip
Or suffer atrocity endlessly cast
Jose Carlito May 2020
No one shall have nothing at all
But not one can have it all

Every man must always have a necessity
If necessity vanished, so as he

For a man who reached the highest peak
No land to climb but rot and weep

To be youthful, robust, and good-looking
To be famous, happy, and outstanding

Is not supposed to be held by a single creature
Flooded with envy, it's against our nature
May 2020 · 1.5k
JOVEN HERNANDO
Jose Carlito May 2020
Matagal nang nagsimula
at patuloy na umiiral
Ang ating matinik na pakikipamuhay
sa ating bayan

Palagiang nasasadlak
sa karalitaan
Ang dugo ng kabataan,
alay sa kasarinlan

Tayong mga bulag,
sa siyensiya at kapalaran
Sa pagmartsa ng kalabang
hindi natatanaw

Naulit ang kasaysayang
may isang kurso at galaw
Bala para kay tatay
ang anak ang namatay

Bumagsak ang ekonomiya
Lumambitin sa aming mga leeg
Iniasa ang pagtaas
sa aming mga bisig

Habang si Alejandrino
dumarami't nagbubuntis
Ang batang henerasyon
Patuloy na nililitis

Kung ganun,
Huwag ninyo kaming pababayaan,
Paglustayan, paghirapan
At pakikinabangan

Sa gayong mga pumalya at matatanda
Ay may aakay
Walang huhugot sa Inang bayan-
Kundi kaniyang kabataan
Inspired from the Filipino Movies: Heneral Luna, and Goyo: The Boy General
May 2020 · 139
EQUILIBRIUM - ANG TALARO
Jose Carlito May 2020
Two scenarios
  Balanced a plank
-We hold hands-
  at the middle
-Or I will stay-
  by my side
  And you go stay-
  on another
May 2020 · 484
AKLATAN
Jose Carlito May 2020
If you want to see happy people
Go to the bookstore

As they flip the first few pages
Observe the cover and the edges

Notice the torn and the teardrops
Rub the coffee spills and the bookmarks

Smell the old cinnamon bread
As this 2nd hand book tells, the living and the dead

And if you see them smile,
And their eyes sparkle like the sea

By that you can tell
And tell, yet begin another story

So if you want to see happy people
Go to the bookstore

They are silently sitting in the corner
But you don't judge a book by its cover
Jose Carlito May 2020
People hate despair
But I want it all
Happiness is a trap
Prosperity is a loll

Once get belittled
Do not shrink, get big
Once broken-hearted
Pick the pieces and leave

You remember the wound
An ember will soon be fire
Collect the sticks and the stones
Slowly build the empire

Don't avoid the sudden knock
It's the sling and you're the rock
If you were beaten to the ground
You're the Champion, don't lay down!
May 2020 · 79
EVERY MAN HAS A WOMAN
Jose Carlito May 2020
Such perfection so condensed to one
Even Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman,
Will face annihilation instantly
For she's the woman-the most phenomenally

My woman is never like a glass
She belongs to the stronger class
She's also not a stormy cloud
She holds tears better than any crowd

My woman is not a rose or an orchid
For her beauty comes from perennial seed
My woman nowise to be Venus idolater
Many can tell, she's a Bellona's warrior

This woman is not my wife,
Nor my girlfriend, but my life
She's the phenomenal woman for me
She's my mother, the one and the only
Credits to Maya Angelou's poem: Phenomanal Woman. I love it!
May 2020 · 159
WE DON'T NEED TWO PHONES
Jose Carlito May 2020
The great irony
Is within us all, our economy
On why it bleeds?
If we're only buying what we need
May 2020 · 85
FACE CARDS
Jose Carlito May 2020
An overt trait often conceals its opposition  
For the uptight screams for adventure
And the anti-social is dying for attention
And whom, who thumps his chest, is a coward creature
May 2020 · 126
LESSONS FROM A CHILD
Jose Carlito May 2020
What are you doing?
My younger sister asked
When I'm busy working
Finishing my task

When I'm reading
She'll ask, what I am doing
When I open the door
She'll ask, where I am going

Child's innocence teached us something new
And ask ourselves out of the blue,
If what we're doing now can help?
Or can it just destroy ourself?
May 2020 · 4.5k
JUANess
Jose Carlito May 2020
"Strength in numbers" as the American says
The Great Unity (dàtóng) the Chinese prevails
"I am because we are" the Ubuntu in Africa
We, the Filipinos, we have "Pagkakaisa"

Houses lifted and moved through "bayanihan"
As solidarity bolstered during typhoon Haiyan
By peaceful revolutions, ousted miscreants
For we are but red ants and we bite as one
#Filipinopride #juan #Philippines #makabayan #oneness
Jose Carlito May 2020
When things go rough and that we cannot grasp
And set our prime but destiny decline
We say, things happened for a reason

When things go wrong but not too wrong
Instead of death we've only received scathe
We say, things happened for a reason

As if someone had a concrete plan for us?
Such being amputated and losing our sight
Are just shenanigans, just blessings in disguise?

We believed, for after suffering, a safe haven
But truth is, things don't always happened for a reason
For every choice there's an equal share of delight and affliction

But then, a mortal mind had always shown
On losing situations we'd clung to the unknown
And maybe, just maybe, you're in the right situation

Because things happened with or without reason
May 2020 · 156
WALLLS!
Jose Carlito May 2020
From worldly usage,
it separates things
Divides inside from the outside,
completely, without links
Walls are made to keep something out
These are also made, to shield internal doubts
As space becomes tighter
The banging volumed louder
Let outside in, and inside out
I'll tear down walls and get you out
But the walls become stronger, sturdy and firm
Then outside realized,
nothing bout the walls but who's breaking them

— The End —