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Stronger

By the time you losthalf of your legs you will realizeyou have walked a thousand milesaway from your ghoststo a place they won’t follow you for a desert is a paradiseto the one who lives without a shadow and once

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Alon

alon sa aking puso, sumayaw ka paikot-ikot hanggang marating mo ang hanggangan ng lupang pangako sa paghalik ng dagat sa durog kong kaluluwa ibabalon ko ang hapdi ng bangag kong pag-asa baka sakaling magising sa tarangkahan ng langit tangay ng

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Paalala

Hangga’t baligtad mong binabasa ang liham ng mga parirala sasayaw lang ang letra sa saliw ng bigong harana walang galak, walang sigla tanging metro lang at paghinga tintang walang marka pasensyang paupos na sa ningas ng puting kandila

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The Rain Removed the Blanket and Woke Me Up on a Thursday

From a distance, the rain tiptoed as if I wouldn’t hear it gurgling with the thick hem of its robe, scraping the heaven’s floor “If I knocked, you wouldn’t open the door,” it said by my window, pouring its morning

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You are an Art Making Art

Don’t put that brush down, darling. It’s beautiful. It’s odd. It’s irregular, just like you and the pigment of your skin, the warts on your arms like little gems you wanted to pick and pull away but an Artist put

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The Quiet Loves

Be grateful for those quiet loves that didn’t ask for attention or be loved in return but rather just kept shining on you like a benign sun or a radiant moon content to watch you with an unsent love song