On Loneliness

On Loneliness

You're like a thief
Snatching my happiness away
You're like the cloud
Wiping the sun's smile eventually
You're so cruel
Crushing my heart into pieces
You're like the Angel of Death
Wreaking havoc wherever you go...

Leave me
I implore you
Please put this heart of mine to rest
I don't want to feel the emptiness
I don't want to go on like this...

I want the sun to shine
Upon my face
I want the smile to show
Upon my lips
Free me, release me...

Only then can I say
That life is worth living
If you are still in me, with me
I know bliss is elusive
So the only respite for this...
Is the time when you
Open the cage
And let me flutter my wings...


IN RESPONSE TO LONELINESS
(from a poet to a poetess)(ADV)

If I were like the thief
who snatched the brief...
moments or like the clouds
that shreded a sun’s smile,
I would not crash
a heart in pieces,
fetch a death’s disease,
or tarry on a toxic mile.

For as I leave I left
untouched, bereft
from right to left
the words untold
in deep accord
while empty hands parlayed
a struggling fray, allayed
in verses bleak to reach
perchance to teach
the radiant glow of souls.

Smile, my friend and
let this beam, this light
descend upon your noble life
as we pass through the strife,
of nebulous arrays conveyed
in thoughts we dare not say.
Your life is worth a living lived
to which your freedom strongly cleaved,
the cage we think was locked and closed
is nothing else than thoughts imposed.

Bliss and peace are in your hands
my dear, so let those wings
bring forth a mystic wand,
flutter freely through the lands
and let your freedom sing
the magic of your strand.

So as we smile or sing or cry
the joy we have should not go by,
for poems are penned by fools like me
but only God can make us free.

Here I am Friend

Here I am Friend

In my loneliness

I think of you

In my blissfulness

There were you

These past days

I always reminisce

The times that we are together

The smiles and the laughter

And now I seem to be

Flotsams in the sea

In which the waves carry

Wherever they take me

What I can’t understand

The emptiness I feel inside

For you may have forsaken

And you may have changed then

My only wish for you

Wherever you may go

In the city of lights

You’ll continue your flight

The success that you aim

That has always been your dream

In the hope of life’s improvement

That’s why you left my friend

I wish you will bear in mind

The place you left behind

And this forlorn friend

That misses you and always has been…

Ako Kini Higala

Sa akong paginusara

Gihandom ka

Sa akong pagmaya

Gihanduraw ka

Sa mga adlaw nga nilabay

Ako kanunay nagsubay – subay

Sa mga panahon nga gikauban ka kanunay

Kung diin ikaw nagtalidhay

Ug karon ako nahisama

Sa mga gapnod gipasa – pasa

Sa balod gidala – dala

Ug bisan asa mahitugpa

And dili ko mahisabtan

Kanunay naghuot kining dughan

Tingali imo nga gikalimtan

Ug dako kana ug kausaban

Ang bugtong kong panghinaot

Nga sa imong pagsuot – suot

Sa syudad nga magahob

Imo untang makab ot

Ang pangandoy nga tugpaw

Subay sa imong panglantaw

Nga ang imong kahimtang mousbaw

Maong nitalikod ikaw

Hinaut nga dili nimo hikalimtan

Ang imong gigikanan

Ug kining higalang naa sa kasub anan

Tungod kanimo akong gikamingawan….

Ako Ito Kaibigan

Sa aking pagiisa

Iniisip kita

Sa aking pagsasaya

Ikaw ay naaalala

Sa mga araw na nagdaan

Aking binabalik – balikan

Ang mga sandaling tayo’y nagkuwentuhan

At ikaw ay lagging nasiyahan

Heto ako ngayon

Parang yagit na patalun - talon

Tinangay tangay ng alon

Hindi alam saang banda paroon

Ang hindi ko lubos maisip

Bakit dibdib ko’y nagsisikip

Tiyak hindi mo napagtanto

Malaki na ang iyong pagbabago

Ang tanging hiling ko

Na sa iyong paglayo

Sa lungsod na magarbo

Itanim sa iyong ulo

Ang matayog mong pangarap

Para sa buhay na masarap

At alisin ang pamilya sa hirap

Kaya ikaw ay nagpapakahirap

Usal ko’y huwag mong kalimutan

Ang iyong Inang bayan

At ang tunay mong kaibigan

Na maghintay sa iyo mapasa walang hanggan…

At A Glance (The Letter)

From the Novel written by Nicholas Sparks

The main character was lost in her own reverie while jogging on a beach and found a letter enclosed in a bottle...the letter touched her so much:
And this is the story behind my poem “At A Glance”

July 22, 1997
My Dearest Catherine,
I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. I can almost feel you beside me as I write this letter, and I can smell the wildflowers that always reminds me of you. But at this moment, these things give me no pleasure. Your visits have been coming less often, and I feel sometimes as if the greatest part of who I am is slipping away.
I am trying, though. At night when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me. Last night, in my dreams, I saw you on the pier near Wrightsville Beach. The wind was blowing through your hair, and your eyes held the fading sunlight. I am struck as I see you leaning against the rail. You are beautiful, I think as I see you, a vision that I can never find in anyone else. I slowly begin to walk toward you, and when you finally turn to me, I notice that the others have been watching you as well. "Do you know her? They ask me in jealous whispers, and as you smile at me, I simply answer with the truth. "Better than my own heart."
I stop when I reach you and take you in my arms. I long for this moment more than any other. It is what I live for, and when you return my embrace, I give myself over to this moment, at peace once again.
i raise my hand and gently touch your cheek and you tilt your head and close my eyes. My hands are hard and your skin is soft, and I wonder for a moment if you'll pull back, but of course you don't. You never have, and it is at times like this that I know what my purpose is in life.
I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no place to be.
But then, as always, the mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.
I feel my throat begin to close and my eyes well up with tears because I know it is time for you to go. The look you give me at that moment haunts me. I feel your sadness and my own loneliness, and the ache in my heart that had been silent for only a short time grows stronger as you release me. And then you release your arms and step back into the fog because it is your place and not mine. I long to go with you, but your only response is to shake your head because we both know that it is impossible.
And I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away. I find myself straining to remember everything about this moment, everything about you. But soon, always too soon, your image vanishes and the fog rolls back to its faraway place and I am alone and the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry.
Garrettt

One Hello

One Hello

You said hello

When I was blue

You said hi

When life has gone by

Life has been

All over again

When our road met

I was on one way street

You take the sadness away

The emptiness that’s been my way

The bareness that’s felt

All these melt

Alas! The paradox of life

When everything is in strife

All I can think of

Whether forever is enough

When I met you

All I want is to go

On and on with phantasm

To be in that chasm

For in the real world

Happiness is devoid

Only sadness is experienced

And thus remained…