Sunday, August 5, 2012

Purple Heart

Sometimes I ask myself if taking your colored light off of my phone list made any sense. When most of the time I still hope you'd reach me, the pain isn't as unbearable as before. I have friends, I have studies, I have so many concerns nowadays that you aren't priority anymore.

The sad, lingering thought of you though, is still around.

The mere route you take to work, I worry that you might be skimming it any given time of day. I always make sure that even if I scour the whole stretch of road to and from school (and basically wherever I go to and come from as long as I go through that) I'd look my best. Some vain creature I am. Nah. It's maybe because I still want to look beautiful in your eyes, until now.

Even if I'll never hear that from you again.

You've changed. Everybody says so. Your friends, your family. That's normal. Change is inevitable. I don't need you to change. I can even tolerate how sloppy you are with your stuff. I find that normal, too. Sometimes I can get sloppier than sloppy. Goodness. Such disgrace.

There's only one thing in you, about you, I constantly pray for change.


And yet the door isn't shut, merely ajar. The windows are fully open, as if welcoming a return. An indefinite wait, a hundred - maybe even a thousand more years, until it is time.

I pray.



Tuesday, July 31, 2012

One Gloomy Morning

i woke up
annoyed
wanting to catch another
minute
asleep

went downstairs
and oh,
a puddle of cat
on the couch
how i envy them

went to the fridge
got some milk
went to the sink
barfed
spoiled

lanai
for fresh air
it was raining
dammit
but what the heck

breakfast, i thought
i'd make something up
and then i said, what the heck
food
has long lost its taste

life without meaning
trailing on
since you've been gone
but here i am, living the dream
that i'll soon be happy.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Dear Kuya,

For some reason you make me happy. Alive, rather. Whatever.

But you are the same reason I feel down.

You know what, f*ck it. Your existence haunts me.

Yet your absence kills me.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

To the man whom the streets take care of

You are never missed
At the corner of 15th and Tuazon
You sit
In your makeshift bed
Your dining room
Your lounge
Of cardboard

How you make it to our street
I would never know
To sell Mama those umbrellas
Trashed
Left for nothing
Yet she gets them for you
Like new

What do you have for dinner?
Is it scraps of someone else's feast?
Is it the gift of tin you savor?
Is it the sheer happiness you get
From the reveling
In the nothingness
This world offers?

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Yes, I Knew That.

Well, I could've put it into use earlier. Haha.

Thank you Lord, for all the things I didn't immediately realize I had, for all the people who love me, for all the reasons to keep my sanity intact; my happiness at bay.

You will never give me enough reasons to be thankful, because they are more than enough. :)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Angina Pectoris

There you are
You hardly exist
Like smoke
You come and go

It pains to see you near
And even in distance
You suffocate me
With your mere existence.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Keep On Messing With My Life, That's Right. :'(

Dear lonely, you hurt me
You just came and knocked me down
That's right

Dear lonely, you tore me
Say hello, it's been a while
And now you're here to stay once again

[Chorus]

Ohh
And I can't make you go away
So I'll just beg you please don't stay
Now filled with tears it's all because you're here
And there you go again
And there you go again
And there you go again
Dear lonely

I say dear lonely
Now are you happy?
Keep on messing with my life
That's right

What's the deal lonely
Come face me
Why'd you have to come at night?
You know it's not right

[Chorus]
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/z/zia_quizon/dear_lonely.html ]
Ohh
And I can't make you go away
So I'll just beg you please don't stay
Now filled with tears it's all because you're here
And there you go again
And there you go again
And there you go again
Dear lonely

[Bridge]

You're in my bed when I sleep
And in my pillow you bring tears woah
I can't wait for the day that you will leave
If I could only find a way to live in peace
You wouldn't have to take control over me


[Chorus2]

And I can't make you go away
So I'll just beg you please don't stay
Now filled with tears it's all because you're here

And you are
The rain outside, the wind at night
The time when I turn off the lights
Oh why just can't you leave me?
Oh when will you be through?
And there you go again
And there you go again
And there you go again
Dear lonely