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(a song sent by a long lost girlfriend) Somewhere, lost in the wind I'm watching you Sunlight touching your hair And I remember Somehow, we said that we would never stray But somehow we lost our way Promises too often spoken Are easily broken apart I'm ready this time I know that I'm no longer undecided Don't wanna be A fool wondering what might have been Trace of forever lingering Drawing me closer to you A new beginning Now I know There is no doubt I understand Just how fragile love can be I can't forget Your mem'ry found me Now I know where I belong I'm ready this time I know that I'm no longer undecided Don't wanna be a fool wondering What might have been Through every day, into the night With only love to guide us I'm ready to go, coz I've got to know What might have been Let the lovin' decide, I can't run, I can't hide I want you to know My heart will show that I'm ready this time I know that I'm no longer undecided ...

Love is insightful: it sees the deepest superficiality and profoundest ideals.Love is sensitive: it feels deadened emotions and overexcited bliss. Love is savory:it craves for all its truest manifestations. Love is eloquent: it speaks out when needed and it hears what is not spoken.Love sees what is not seen; Love understands what is not explained;Love doesn't work in the mouth; nor in the mind, but in the heart…What there is left? Listen. Hear me right. Yes. In deafening silence –Love listens. P.s.: The sense of hearing is said to be the last sensory perception that remains functioning in a person about to pass earthly life. Why? Maybe because one would only want to finally hear and cherish that last “I love you” from a loved or even a not-so loved one.

DESIDERATA Desiderata is Latin for "Things to be Desired" Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for i...

MGA ARAL NG KARTILYA NG KATIPUNAN (Pilipino) ni Emilio Jacinto 1. Ang buhay na hindi ginugugol sa isang malaki at banal na kadahilanan ay kahoy (puno) na walang lilim, kundi (man) damong makamandag. 2. Ang gawang magaling na nagbubuhat sa paghahambog o papipita sa sarili (paghahangad na makasarili), at hindi talagang nasang gumawa ng kagalingan, ay di kabaitan. 3. Ang tunay na kabanalan ay ang pagkakawang-gawa, ang pag-ibig sa kapwa at ang isukat ang bawat kilos, gawa't pangungusap sa talagang Katuwiran. 4. Maitim man o maputi ang kulay ng balat, lahat ng tao'y magkakapantay; mangyayaring ang isa'y hihigitan sa dunong, sa yaman, sa ganda; ngunit di mahihigitan sa pagkatao. 5. Ang may mataas na kalooban, inuuna ang (dangal o) puri kaysa pagpipita sa sarili; ang may hamak na kalooban, inuuna ang pagpipita sa sarili sa puri. 6. Sa taong may hiya, salita'y panunumpa. 7. Huwag mong sayangin ang panahon; ang yamang nawala'y mangyayaring magbalik; ngunit panahong nagdaan n...

VELVET SUNSETS From where I am are the best sunsets; Always different, yet forever sad Masking in red orange sweetness Or with deep melancholic yellow Unbounded hues of longing and struggle Beneath near midnight blue skies Quick to vanish underneath Each and everyone’s sea of apathy and confusion; Drowning each and every unforgiving day, Only to be given life that is lifeless And loveless still while you seemed so far away Always drawing tears from the innermost Pits of loneliness and profoundest romances Where silence and knowing is The only friend and companion – Funny, we differ in looking at sunsets Though alike in placidly keeping watch – It must be that we warmly held hands And smiled while it faded away.

PANAHON Kung nais mong yumabong ang ating pag-ibig Masdan mo ako Haplusin mo ako Damhin mo ako At bigyan ako ng panahon. Panahon ang iyong pinakamahalagang handog Sa pamamagitan nito namumulat ako sa iyo Sa iyong mga pangangailangan Sa iyong mga kagustuhan Sa atin. Kailangan natin ng panahon Na maglakad Na magusap Panahon na magkasama Sa Nakasasapat na katahimikan O Nagagalak nating katauhan. Hangga’t di mo ako bibigyan ng panahon Hindi ako lalago Hindi ako makapagbibigay sa iyo ng panahon O pag-ibig O ng aking sarili. Nakalulungkot ang wala ka Nakapanlulumo ang iyong paglisan Kailangan ko pa ng panahon. Panahon… ang kaaway At matalik na kaibigan Kontradiksyon.

Pigilan mo akong mangarap Pagkat ang pag-ibig natin ay Hindi sine o kwento, ni fairy tale. Gupitin mo ang mga pakpak Ng aking pangarap at panaginip, Pagkat ang pag-ibig natin Ay walang siguradong ‘and they lived happily ever after’ Sa ending. Ikadena mo ang paglilimayon Ng aking guni-guni Pagkat ang pag-ibig natin Ay hindi nabibiyayaan Ng katiyakan Ng paglubog at pagsikat ng araw. Sa halip, Turuan mo akong ituring Na ‘dream come true’ Ang bawat araw, Ang mga sandali Na kapiling kita. Sabihin mo sa aking Langit at lupa Ang mga panahong tayo Ay magkatabi… Ang nahahawakan ko Ang mga kamay mo… Ang nakakasabay kita Sa pagkain… Ang nakasandig ako Sa balikat mo at Gayundin ikaw sa akin… Ang naririnig ko ang boses mo… Ang mga sandaling Naisisingit mo ako Sa iyong mga iniisip… Ang nahahagkan At nayayakap kita… Ang namamasdan ko Ang pagbuka ng iyong mga labing Humahabi ng mga pangarap na Wala tayong karapatang angkinin. Ang sandaling panahong hindi Mo man alam na minamasdan Kita sa iyong pagtul...

Two Mid-afternoon Verses One. On Promise Please Promise me not to promise That for a moment, You would never leave Please But beyond my heart’s bending Leave me if you would With the cold comfort And solace of numbness Let me endure then All my bitter breakaways From you From us From the we that never was. My songs are subdued now Not even an empty cry. Only the noble sadness Of one love that in this lifetime Could never be. Two. On Love Leaving I am an exiled truth Behind life’s cruel subtleties Caged in burning sorrow Of chilly poetry Conjured sleep And pantomime smiles Hiding all the pain Searing through my almost Violent rests So deep like the silent Sighing of the waves Only sad rhapsodies fill my dreams Only tears dampen my summers No longer could you gaze Into my once soulful eyes They are uninviting now Barely after your goodbye.