I have been wondering about the flaws hidden inside my void. That maybe something is actually wrong with me. That maybe it’s not every time I succeed with all the things I wish for. Maybe sometimes, there could be a time where I won’t excel like I’m always used to. I have been grasping for…
Read moreBooks over Cellphone
A desert of books Dusks and broke What is more it can When pages are left behind Oh! Young folks, There’s more to life What a beautiful life Don’t be blind by the fake light Put that weapon down This room is falling down Aren’t you sick of it Your time is what…
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 moreKeep that friend…
… who let you wear what you want for she knows you are comfortable with it. Keep that friend who buys you food every time you are craving or you are just hungry. Keep that friend who will get drunk with you and listen to your dramas until 6:00 AM. And keep that friend who…
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 moreA Refugee Soul
And in times of misery, Being prejudiced of my own soul A foreigner to my mind, A racist to my heart, And a criminal to my art Who can I still call home? No one. For even if how much I told myself Not to lose me. I still did. Again and again. – Kath…
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…
Read moreStill, I owe it to the demons of my life.
You do not understand life in just a blink of an eye. It takes time, perhaps a forever to never, but it still guarantees you something even if it isn’t the one you expect. However, we couldn’t even know why it needs to be like that. To be harsh, a little bit of manipulative, a…
Read moreSomewhere in the future,
there will be a time where happiness is too hard to find. You are just there, sitting in the darkest corner of your room while holding an empty bottle of liquor. You are there crying silently. And that is the time you’ll realize you have grown up already. You’ll be full of wounds, you’ll try…
Read moreYes, I am worthy, too.
Lately, I’ve realized how self-worth should be defined. It would always be something that brings out the victory while being the worst fighter of our own. It would always be about serenading tantrums — whatever it would bring, wherever our feet would take us. It would always be somehow realizing how better you can be…
Read moreAs the waves roared by on the seventh…
… by the morning drills, as the sand turned into something more than pixies running over the hour clock, as the sun dropped its magnification beholding its warm rays, and as the stars showed up by the Aurora Borealis forgetting the moon above — I eventually found myself. But, when the waves became silent, the…
Read moreI tried to find myself…
… in different places. In different embraces. In different roles. And in different lives. Until I realized, I was already lost, I don’t know where to go. And oh, I was so dumb. Why do I crave for paradise and different colors of the sky? Why do I want to fly to the moon? Why…
Read moreWe sometimes think…
“why am I existing” or “what is my life all about” Well dear, the purpose of life is to give life a purpose. After all, we are made differently. Mend yourself, create your path. You’ll never get lost, you’ve just intersected with somebody’s road. – Razl Teman
Read moreIt’s starting to get darker inside.
The coldness lingered through my system as I tried reaching out for the light. Save me. Save me from the monster inside my head. Someone, save me. But nobody said hell is transparent. Nobody said suffering is infinite. And the inevitability of pain is stronger than my weaknesses. No one was there to save me,…
Read moreAnd there I found you in the darkest rose garden…
… where skies are shaded with gray, where thousands of fireflies are nowhere to be found, and you were there torn between the cloud castle and impositions. You were there drowning in your own tears and eaten by your own thoughts and suddenly, a light gleamed that sealed your naked and swollen eyes—it was me,…
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