DRAMA

tara let's save our tears
lock em' up
and throw away the key

till someone picks it up
and asks to open it
saying "I'm here to take them away now."

UNTITLED 3(?)

You are worthy

it's nothing tha you've done
nor any that you will ever do

Love surrounds you
it breathes on you everyday
willing you to wake
and live

for you are worthy
of the sunshine
and the rain

you are above and beyond all these
halo and all

ASTRAL SLIDE

Dancing around the twilight fire
hearing the stars' echoing cry
tonight the sky with us conspires
to seal us into you and I

let's just fall
fall into you and I

Yesterday's a world away
and tomorrow is yet to be born
here, now is where we'll stay
free from a world of hate and scorn

let's just fall
fall into you and I

the air around us will keep us safe
from harsh words and tears
and your arms around mine will hold us back
from the horror of coming years

here in this place of dream
where the starfall and the mist meet
where all words form perfect rhyme
forever keep this stitched in time

I WANT TO

i want to send you my messages
I want to call so I'll hear your voice

I want to know you're well
I want to know you're where you're supposed to be

I want to do all these things
but I won't

for now I want you to discover me all over again
I want you to be the one who will choose to seek me

but I do want to be found
by you
and I'll be striding just far enough
for you to take that extra step
then I'll turn around and say
"I've been yours all along anyway."

ITS ALIVE

and it's alive
and it's there
breathing and pulsating
though hidden beneath an icy coccoon
it is there
waiting for its season

as I do

WHY

I need to believe that it can still happen
that beyond hope, beyond fear and beyond sanity
there are still things worth fighting for

I need to believe that it still exists
love that pushes on no matter what
if there is someone out there
who can believe in it
only because I fight for it

then it makes
all the tears
all the pain
worth it

people hardly fight
for what they believe in anymore
and if I can
maybe
show them that
there is still
hope

MATTERS

No matter how hard I try
I can't escape it
that I feel that I only matter
if I matter to you
there's too much of you in me
that when the time comes
that I really lose you
I fear that
I'll lose myself

TAKE IT

Need my strength?
Here, take it.
Use it to break blocks of ice
and carry loads of burden

Need my hand?
Here, take it.
Use it when you need warmth
or to open doors in front of you.

Need my heart?
Here, take it.
Use it when you need comfort
or a source of joy

But when you're done
don't throw it away
even when it's mangled and worn
I may still need it
just in case
you return

along with an orange, plastic ring.


GO

there.
your road is ahead of you, far and wide
take it and go

I know you don't want me to follow
take it and go

as for me
i am here.

WILL IT?

Will our song rise again
above clouds of dust and tears?
Is our hope trodden and stomped underfoot
worries
and pain
and pride
can it survive the ever budgeoning weight of years?


Far our sights have gone
and many the places our smiles have met
these too many to lose
too beautiful to regret


Upon church aisles we promised
and on cloudy nights we faltered
giving away pieces of ourselves
when we were never really whole

without our smile
without our love

like being out of breath
we grope
for every available gasp
when all we wanted
was each other's

LIKE HOME

I told you how it felt like

when my fingers sit beside yours

I felt like I was home

A PAIR OF PRETTY PINK SHOES

I bought a gurl a pair of pretty pink shoes
not knowing how far they'd go
will they bring her back amidst my mud-filled blues
or lead her away to someone else's soul

I knew I'd hurt her true and bad
and didn't treasure her as much as I should
now all I wanna do is not make her sad
and love her as much as I could


baduy ba?...cute kaya
.

SUPERMAN

Ill come when need be

this much you know

but sometimes you have to save me

knowing I wont let go

SIYANG PINAKAKILALA AKO

mayroon pa bang mashihigit pa

ikaw na siguro ang pinakamalala

ni minsan di ko kayang magtago sa iyo

ni hindi ko rin magawang manloko

basang basa mo ang bawat galaw

huling huli mo kahit di malinaw

kaya mo pang tapusin ang aking mga salita

minsan sabay pa nga ang pagbigkas at pagtula

ikaw ang tanging may alam kung pano pawiin

ang ulo at dila na laging maiinitin

kaya mo rin saluhin ang luhang pumapatak

at kaya mo rin na dahil sa iyo ito ay dumanak

sa lahat ng ito nais magpasalamat

na ikaw ang higit na kaibigan sa lahat

o diba...BOW.

BAD VOODOO

what does it mean when each kiss is a sting?

each embrace is a needle?

and each smile is a tear?

If my memories of joy are your memories of fear,

what is the outcome the next time you are near?

SOFT SILENT ACQUIESCE

It seems to be a tell-tale sign
bright as a lamp
clear as a kiss
Your face bares and brings
all the wonderful things
worth being missed
jagged and piercing
they break the panes
of the heart
shattered and broken
now falling apart
Is there no defense
against your sweet oppression?
No resistance from my conscious surrender?

There is only the dredging
of the bells of time
soft, silent acquiesce

Yeshua

ITS THE SONG I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT

We were looking for songs to sing for She's party thing, I didn't know the lyrics then but I found it in another blog. Could these words be my words? Probably, words lost in the vacuum of hate, and sung only in the shadow of tears...here it goes...

What if I took my time to love you?
What if I put no one above you?
What if I did the things
That really mattered?
What if I ran through
Hoops of disaster?

No one would care if
We never made it
We're in this alone
So why don't we face it
There is no room to
Blame one another
We just need time to
Forgive each other


What about love?
What about feeling?
What about all the things that make life worth living?
What about faith?
What about trust?
And tell me baby...what about us?

How can I give this
Love a new beginning?
How can I stop the rain?
It's never ending
How do I keep my soul believing?
Memories of how we
Should be keep calling

I'll take the rivers rise
I'll take the happy times
I'll take the moments of disaster

O diba..BOOM.

BADUY NGA, SWEET NAMAN

I may not be kilig-material
I guess knowing me for 20 years
took that edge away

but still I know there's noone else
who gave you oslo paper gifts
on your fifth birthday

We may not look great if we'd be a couple
there are a thousand others
who'd look much better

but I'm sure and there's proof
that we prove a great Mary and Joseph
straight down to the letter

I may not eat everyday with you
in school and the different corners
that you appear in

but eating lunch in your house
with your mom is surely
a victory to win

I may not count real fast
or learn to engineer computers
or houses and bridges

but I know for sure
I make great paper airplanes
that fly over chairs and ridges

I may be just one of those
who say everyday "I love you."
but surely I'm different because I believe
that Christ's love is enough thru and thru

BINAHAY SA SALITA

Natatandaan mo ba?

ako ni hindi ko malimutan

ang bahay na titirahan natin

and kulay ng kuwarto

at ang masayang makapiling

natatandaan mo ba?

ni hindi ko malimutan

ang mga anak na pinangalanan

at ang pangakong pang kailanman

*...inspired by John Provido

COMING CLEAN

You remarked "How come they like you?"

"They don't even know how cruel you are!"

Well...here we go.

I've hurt people

trampled on their hearts because I liked having my own way

I've cheated love and made fools out of people who loved me

I've neglected the ones who really cared because at the time, I didn't need them

I chose when and where I needed to be loved

And when I didn't need it, I told it to go away

But now, months after the repentance and the forgiveness is done

I see it, love

hiding beneath an ice-cold armour of pain and self-preservation

I've shed my own armour

Took all my pride away so now all willl see me as I am

Could you take it off too?

I can't take it off for you, as I was the one who put it there

But I can show you how it feels to be without it

and breathe life

and love

and freedom

HERE & NOW, THERE & LATER

Its as if time stands still as you hold my hand

for you hold it so perfectly, pristine and without an inch of lost space

then you smile as we part ways

and suddenly the memory is history

Its as if the world stops when you look into my eyes

when love is so obviously shown and poured out

then you smile as we part ways

and the memory is history

Replying comes hard

and the warmth is so quickly, inevitably gone

im vexed about what get's in the way

that your warmth doesn't live on fully

even for one whole day

WHEN YOU DOUBT

When you doubt

and the world constricts around you

do not fear

youre stil free to live

still free to love

you still ownyour heart

you still own your soul

In obedience there is hope

In patience there is a dream

a dream of you

SANA LAGI

Mayroon akong pagsasalitaan bukas na pagtitipon ng mga kabataan sa DLSU-D.
At sa paggawa ko ng aking mensahe, inalok ako nang pinakamamahal kong kaibigan na siya
ang gumawa ng presentasyon sa komputer upang ipalabas bukas habang ako ay nagsasalita.
Napakasarap ng pakiramdam, napaka...tama. Maaaring ganito nalang sana ang palaging
mangyari hanggang sa kinabukasan, na magkatulungan kami.

ENGAGEMENT

there's this pentel pen ring around my finger
it was drawn by the most beautiful person I know...in and out.

Maybe I won't wash it for like...5 years,
hanggang totoo na.

NEED YOUR HELP

I know I trust you

and I know that the Lord is by your side and that you won't give up the faith we have. I know that you need your time to enjoy life and walk on your own. I also know that you're with good friends who won't treat you bad, that your heart is safe and secure and that you are grounded and firm.

I also know that I just worry too much.

how can I turn it off?

LUNCH

Lunch with you and your mom
is one of the most natural things
with pinangat and your burned-up crepe
nothing is simpler

I WANT TO SAY HOW IT FEELS

I want to say how it feels
how its much more like acid in my mouth rather than a distant memory
how it more similar to the blade of a knife than to a tear
it like this you see
when I remember you
when I remember us
I remember that there is no us
and there is no you
there is only a void
a void with the weight of a hundred waves slammed together
much more like the weight of a kiss never had or forgotten

I go back to touching your hand
when now I can't even have your voice
can't even have the dream of seeing your face

ah your face
I cannot find a beauty
a goodness
that will have enough to say about it
its like a cloud on a warm day
the leaves of a sheltering tree
or the wind that passes through them

and then there is no you
there is no us
only the pain of a memory revisited
a locked door with no key
no hinge
only solid walls, lengthy and firm

you are that wall
keeping me away as one would a stray dog
dirty and forgotten

its like the stars on a clear evening
bright and existing
yet a universe away

like hair that passes through my fingers
soft and gentle
and then gone

that is how it feels
and more

SERENDIPITY

...there is a purpose under Heaven that we cannot see, when we don't, we become angry, depressed or even struck with bitterness. We reject what is present because of the pain of the past, and oftentimes, we fall into weakness and put outselves into things or people that is harmful, and sinful.Siguro, we should just let that invisible purpose simmer in us, pass through us and broil us, then as we emerge from the heat...masarap na kainin. Sana gets nyo.

ako medyo palang.

like this...

I had to lose you to find you

I had to hurt you to heal you

I had to be a fool to be wise

I had to feel the dirt to see the skies

SORRY

I've asked for your forgiveness

repented for my hurts against you

but I still want to say...

I really am sorry

....I see the pain you still feel

... your silent anger echoes

...and the weight in your heart hinders you from loving

Im sorry

Im sorry

Im sorry

MAYBE ITS NOT WHAT I NEED

Maybe I don't need your strength,

maybe I just need to be with you in your weakness.

IT IS LIKE THIS...

you know what our love is like?

it is like this dream we forget upon waking

like a ray of sunshine that we can never look straight into

it is similar to a sweet secret kept in the hidden corners of youth

it is too precious to be said aloud

it is a whisper

a silent phrase that is lost once it is spoken

that is why we have to keep it

layered beneath memories cherished and embraced

that is why it is worth waiting for

that is why it is worth fighting for

because it is all too precious to let go

POOCHIES

you are strong and beautiful, worthy to be praised and loved
your family loves you, your friends see hope and kindness in you
your strength gives hope for the people who need it
you may not realize it, but the world shouts thanks for your existence
you are true, noble and kind
more beautiful than any named flower

because you can
laugh, and cry and love