To be free, forget who’s in charge Life is a mystery, it’s large No, you don’t need to follow them Be your true self, polish your gem Ignore what your friends are doing Look within, your heart’s screaming Empty what’s inside the mind Absorb what you need, then grind You may not know your purpose,…
Read moreLifeless Frame
Hopeful nothingness The Light breaks in, I’m ready Danger awaits me Between Black and white Breeze over fields and flowers Wings spread high and low White screen orange ring Of the eternal glass frame Assholes entertained – Jade
Read moreSo, I guess, this is goodbye.
Even if we don’t tell, most of us have hard times thinking about how to forget our past. This is where we detach who’s keeping our feelings up until now. When we think we aren’t capable of moving forward again, this is the time where we feel that it’s an impossibility to restart. But love,…
Read moreKahit hindi man natin sabihin,
alam kong may mga pagkakataong nahihirapan tayong bitawan ang isang bagay. Kahit anong limot man natin, may hahatak at hahatak pa rin upang tayo’y bumalik dito. At hindi ko na iyon ipinagtataka. Lalo na’t alam kong isa ito sa mga senyales na minahal ko ito ng husto. Ngunit kailanga kong bumitiw hangga’t kaya ko pa….
Read moreWhen everything seems falling…
Who will you be calling And when you are drowning Are you even worth saving? You worth like the sun You shine like the stars You stand out like the moon But in life, we are all a dust Folks, wake up from dreaming You might vanish without knowing No details of you will be…
Read moreHere you are again…
Creating steps to the road less traveled. You are such a risk-taker thinking that there’s something beautiful awaits beyond the horizon. Go on, I’ll push you through that. Make this life a worthy one. – Kath Panugan
Read moreI hope,
I hope you will not spend A moment letting your tears fall down Even a minute or a second I hope you’ll look for the art The art that you have So that you would know That you worth more than Mona Lisa It takes time to heal, I know I’ve been there before And…
Read moreWhen a writer falls in love,
When a writer falls in love, No metaphors left behind When a musician falls in love, Every strum produces such lovely rhythms But when you are both, You’ll spend the night writing poems with melodies – Kath Panugan
Read moreFire
I’ve been imagining how safe it feels to avoid the fire without even thinking that getting burned is a feeling too. – El
Read moreThe moment I stopped writing about you.
I still look for you in every piece I write lately. I still look for the metaphors that described you in ways that I couldn’t. I still look for the chapters where we’ve been once, and in the paragraphs where I had my worst and in the periods where you came and saved me. I…
Read moreLosing is an art
It takes an artist to dig into it Just to understand its angle and details But in this art, Please be an artist For you to understand That there’s a beauty in losing someone So that you won’t spend your night Sitting in the corner And asking yourself, ‘Am I not enough?’ – Kath Panugan
Read moreWhere It all Started
Dates aren’t vivid, the moment is. You stood on that door and everything’s unsure. Surroundings seem blurry. And all I can see is you. And that’s the moment it all began. A regretful one. – Kath Panugan
Read moreAnd, it’s okay to be a blur sometimes.
It’s okay if you don’t see the signs like what others want you to do. It’s okay if you are torn between choosing the best or being the best in all aspects. It’s okay if you don’t shine when morning comes or sparkle when the dusk presents its stars. You are not a disaster, not…
Read moreYou are made of petals…
… anyone would dare to touch. You are as red as blood and as soft as lips. What a beautiful rose you are but he picked the sunflower. It didn’t make you less a flower. – Kath Panugan
Read moreHow did I even become a prisoner of your yesterdays?
Today, I’ll stop sending letters and vintage photographs while pretending that I’m still in the ocean of your smiles. Today, I’ll walk away and never look back to the things we used to talk about but never made it to the horizon. Today, I’ll think about how loving myself feels much more than just loving…
Read moreSome nights feel like strangers.
There were nights when I’m a writer writing the first chapter There were nights, I’m a musician trying to learn 3 strums There were times, I’m a poet writing thousand of metaphors But a lot of time, I’m a peace after the war. – Kath Panugan
Read moreI love silence.
It is loud and pleasant. It is freedom and victory. It is peace after the war. That others spend a lifetime seeking for. – Kath Panugan
Read moreOnly in a Real Man’s Eye
When all the beautiful details of you Can be seen If a man will only question you With the things you lack He is not a man, he is still a boy Waiting for his monthly allowance – Kath Panugan
Read moreUgly Warrior
I have dived through the deepest ocean, Walked across the valleys of fire Flew through the endless skies Fell to the darkest desert Tell me more, many, I have been I cried an ocean and broke as glasses I am fragile with no precautions But, I’m fearless, I picked up the pieces Can’t you see?…
Read moreHopefully, I am now in the right path.
Lately, I’ve realized how busy I was these past few years without knowing where my efforts would take me. Growing up was even tougher. Today, I’m not going to force something into my life again. I will just accept the inevitability of rejections and failures ahead of me — because after all, these are parts…
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