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Ellie Sep 2012
Waiting in the dark. Just waiting.
I can't sleep. I will wait until morning.
I just can't risk having that dream again.
That one dream. The dream that changed my life forever.

I dreamt that I was running so fast that I felt like I was flying.
I felt amazing. Smiling, laughing, feeling the wind blow through my hair.
As I approached a house, I saw it was on fire.
When I moved close, I saw that it was specifically my father's house.

"No," I said. Then I started screaming.
"No no no no NO!" I was starting to hear screams.
It was her. Alyra. She came running out of the house as if she was on fire. And she was.
Her pink-white shirt got caught on the door and she was stuck.

I tried to run for her. I did. I really tried.
But these hands grabbed my waist.
I looked back, and could see a boy. Blonde hair, but the face was blurred.
I was so mad that he wouldn't let me get her. I punched him and kicked him, but he just wouldn't let me go.

All he said was "I'm sorry."
Throughout my dream there were so many people whom I loved that died.
Alyra, Molly, my mother, my father, all my close family members like young Isabel, Rose, and T-J. Lilly, Maegan, Mahali, and SO MANY people died.
Each time I couldn't save them.

Then, at the very end of my dream, I fell into a pit.
Everyone who I couldn't save came and buried me alive. Each person giving me one shovel of dirt.
The list went on and on.
I woke up sweating and thrashing about.

And this, is how I learned that I really should not make any more friends.
It hurts to care about people, it hurts to love people.
But there are some whom I just can't help myself with.
I hate caring about them, but it pleasures me to know that they are safe... Safe. Ha. Safety doesn't exist. And the sooner we figure that out, the better off we'll be.
Just a poem about my feelings. Isn't it strange that we dream about the people we love getting hurt? I guess it is just because we care.
raquezha Aug 2020
Nagpundo an sinasakayan kong bus
Sa sarong kakanan sa Tiaong
Kinabahan pati ako ta baka nakalampas
Stop over daa sabi ni manong
Maray nalang
napapaihi naman ako
Luway-luway akong nagbaba
Luway-luway man na naghibi an langit
Makusogon na daguldól
An nagsabat sa sakuyang pag-ihi
Garo baga may gusto sakong sabihon
Garo may naparong akong bihon
Údto na palan, oras na para magkakan
Naglakaw na ko pabalik sa bus
Kan igwang lalaki na nagalok
"Madya, mapangudto" an sabi sako
Hiniling ko an bus garo dai pa man mahali
Kaya dali-dali akong nagkuang plato
Digdi na lugod ako mapangudto
Kadakol kakanon
Pero lumpia an sakuyang pipilion
Nag-luwas pang alak
Ribong na an balanak
Pulotan naman an balak
Basog-basog na an sakuyang tulak
Kan pagkatapos kong magchibog
Nagpahiran-hiran sa irarom kan niyog
Nagpundo na an urán
Maugma na ulit an saldang
Gutom man lang palan

Nagpundo na an urán
Asin mayò naman akong sasakayan
Napasiram kaya an kakan
Uni ako garo tungaw na binayaan
Pero ayos lang
Basog-basóg man

—𝐔𝐝𝐭𝐨, a Bikol poetry.
1. Ùdto means noon or noontime
2. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg2ZIMH8uE/
raquezha Aug 2020
Nadangog ko na naman
An pagbagting kan saiyang púsò
Garo baga igwang nagkakasulô
Pinukaw an pagmati kong nag-aarabadab
Ngunyan na banggi
Hahalaton ko an saiyang pagdungáw
Sa sakuyang bentana
Ika an sakuyang kometa
Na hali pa sa ibang planeta
Ika an ráson kun tàno
mapúngay an sakuyang mata
Dai ko mahali an saiyang gira sa buhay ko
Ngunyan na banggi
Tabangan mo akong makaturog
Ibahan mo ako sa madiklom na kinaban
Tabangan mo akong labanan an mga demonyo
Hahalaton ko an pagbagsak mo
Sa ulonán ko.

—𝐔𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐧, a Bikol poetry.
1. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeSSXcHb3y/
Maegan Sep 2012
Nobody knows that i am alone in the world
Nobody will ever know because
Nobody cares and
Nobody thinks of anything other than themselves and
Nobody ever will because
Nobody knows that I am here and
Nobody wants me to be here.

written by mahali mogan, my friend, she is also 12 and in my class

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