I’d Be Around

I’d be around when you need a woman
who would give you love and all the comfort
who would sit always by your side to talk,
to recall the good times then laugh and cry,
and to be silent in the midst of angst.
I’d be around when you need a mistress
who would bring you to the heights of glory
who [...]

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To Be a Mother

It is not easy, my dearest,
If you think it is easiest
To be a mother, loving you,
Protecting you, bracing yourself.
I may not be the mom you like
But you will always be the one
A progeny I had conceived
That I will cherish all my life.
You are a part of our being
Somewhat a replica of us
An upshot of our [...]

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He Breathed His Last

The phone rang with panic
Like a warning
It was mother
He had to be rushed to
A hospital
Waiting for him
As if expecting him
Poor father, what pity!
I held your hand
You held my hand
‘I am here, can’t you see?
Oh, do you feel
The sudden fear,
Open your eyes, I plead!’
Not a stir from him
Even a sound
Could not be heard
Only a tear from [...]

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Premature Love

Cupid
was mistaken
releasing the arrow
early
Oh, child
You are wounded
to fall deeply in love,
ill-timed!
Listen!
This ought not be
Cupid was blindfolded
Naughty
Oh, sighs
from a ‘lovesick’,
from a mother who frets,
upset
Behold!
Future awaits
Be slow, be on guard
Oh, child

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For April 23

(a first-year anniversary poem having a boyfriend, year 1984, and I was in Romblon, having a vacation because Papa required me to be there)
As I walked along the
rocky and dusky road
With the blue sky and
the vastness of the sea
With the fresh air and the
myriad rocks on the shore
I remembered I was
only dreaming then
But here I [...]

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