Athena

Athena Was it because Paris chose Aphrodite that your heart became brittle and your soul, once radiating with all the colors of the rainbow slowly bled into black? Was it because you weren’t chosen, that you exchanged your wisdom and strength for bloodlust and revenge? But Athena, it wasn’t your fault that your sister was [...]

Prayer for the Battle-Weary Soldier

Dear Lord, I’m tired. My heart is restless, and my spirit is weary. My eyes feel heavy, and my head is threatening to shut down. Every where around me, there are dragons breathing fire down my neck, and there are black knights pointing sharp swords at my heart. I’m very, very tired. Every time I [...]

CLAIMING DESTINY: A Tale of Heartbreak, Loss, Going Down the DEEP END, and finally Climbing Back Up (A thank you note FOR ALL)

29 May 2011 The lights are out and my door is locked. In the background, a slow song keeps playing on a never-ending loop. Outside, rain patters softly on the rooftops, and the wind, ever present, breeze through the open blinds of my window and into my room before settling onto me. I close my eyes and [...]

[Poem/Verse] Checkmate (To the Next One Who’d Make My Heart Beat) Version 1 & 2

Idle time breeds dangerous thoughts.

When at times I am left with nothing to do, my mind would run amok. I am even more dangerous when I have a pen in my hand and /a paper in my desk. It would be as if I would fall into a trance, and my mind would suddenly have full command of my hands.

Words spill onto paper, unbidden, uncontrolled.

Kunwa-Kunwariang Deep: A Time for Everything

Matapos ang halos isang buwang katahimikan, isa na namang kunwa-kunwariang deep na post mula sa kaisa-isang TENSAI ng Bayan. HAHA. OO, magsusulat ako tungkol sa mga bata (eztudyamoz ko). OO, magsusulat ako tungkol sa bertday ko (kahit lipas na), at OO, magsusulat ako tungkol sa FAKULTEH SHOW. Per0 sa ngayon, isang handog para sa inyo. [...]

Loving You

Loving You… is not tying you down nor being tied down by you. It is being free- free to do anything I want, when I want it, where I want to, knowing that you would be there to support me, and trusting that you would know when I’ve reached the limits I would not often acknowledge [...]

Ang Musika Para sa Balahura

Ano kasi eh… Ganito yun… Nagtuturo ako ng ‘music’ kanina sa mga klase ko. Mangyari lang na nagkakatanungan kami kung ano ang depinisyon ng musika para sa kanila. Mga chever ba, para sa lesson. Siyempre natuwa naman ako sa mga sagot ng mga bagets ko.. At pagkatapos nila mag-share ng mga saloobin nila, eh nag-flash [...]

Bookmarks (For Mama, For Buddy, For B)

I’ve never once used bookmarks before, literally or figuratively, but in the story of my life, I’ve put that one single bookmark on the page where I met you, B.