Not when clouds turn grey
Nor when the wind ceases to howl

Not when the ground shakes
Nor the earth rumbles

Not even when mountains erupt
Or when the forest sunders

Only when

Souls tear apart
With a sound that makes even the mightiest ones shudder

When your mind breaks
And you give in to despair
Like pillars of cement
Coming down to the abyss

Only When

You seek solace in cigarettes
Or see a better life by the bottle

Does the world end

Isa, dalawa, hanggang sampu.
Bilang sa daliri ko
Ang bilang ng araw na umuwi
Ako na hindi lasing

Sa pagpasok pa lang
Uwi na ang hinahanap
Para makapiling
Ang kanais nais kong kama

Ngunit bago sa pagalis
Ay may karamdamang
Hindi kakaiba
Hindi nakapagtataka

Ang pagtawag ng cervesa at tabako
Ng aking utak para sa aking katawan
Ay dumadagumgdong
Sa kaluluwa kong mahina

Isang bote isa pa isa pa
Isang kaha isa pa tama na
tuloy tuloy ang daloy ng alak
Sunod sunod Ang buka ng usok

Sa pagtulog ubos na ang pakiramdam
Ni-pandinig ay sumuko na.
Amoy na lang ng amats
Ano na ba anng kinahihinatnan

Isa

Dalawa

Tatlo

Hanggang sampu

Bilang sa aking kamay
Ang araw na Hindi ako lasing
Ang sigarilyong hindi naubos
At ang mga araw na humihinga pa ako

My heart is for rent.
Holding a space for one.
And do not tell me that you can't

In here is home
Comfort and solace
Like tiny shells being washed by seafoam

It is a place for you
And you alone
The only acceptable who in this world of who's who

But maybe one is not enough
Oh my dear you are right
A space for another, no not a bluff

My heart is for rent.
It holds space now for two.
It holds one for you,
The other one for me.

Because it is cliche
How can you love another,
If you cannot love yourself.

It's ******
It's gore
It's death
It's destruction

It's pain
It's torment
It's torture
It's suffering

It's fear
It's uncertainty
It's weakness
It's every breakdown you could possibly think of

All for

A moment of peace
Pleasure
Maybe romance

All for one moment of happiness

Look forward to a day
Where today is no longer yesterday

Yesterday was fear
Yesterdays of uncertainty
Of longing.
Of only pure liquid coursing through your veins

Oh the yesterday where rain is a blessing
When the heat
You feel is only sunlight
Ah a heat lacking lust

A dream

But look forward to today
A today where it is tomorrow

And imagine
That today is a blessing
Today is sunlight
Imagine that today there is warmth

Now after today
After today brings

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
A tomorrow of uncertainty
Another tomorrow of fear
And another
And another
And another

A tomorrow
Of dreaming of today
Back to yesterday and yesterday

Of empty glasses,
And bottles. Only I am
None but emptier

I the onlooker
Looks on the tender sweetness
Of the bond between
Man and woman
Woman and man
Man to man and
Woman to woman

A blissful repose
Is what a yearn for
When the scent of colorful daisies
Or the chime of tiny bells
Becomes only an apparition;
An idea at the back of my mind

In front of that one person
My mind would be blank,
If not of the thought of my love
The one's whose light does not shine through my darkness
But of the light that casts a further spark into whats left of my smoldering fervor

I the onlooker
looks on tender sadness
Caused by love not being able to find me,
Of what was found once but what was lost

Oh a bitter-sweet sensation this epiphany
Love cannot find me now
However I the onlooker;
Still looks on