“You feel like you wasted all those years for nothing because the thing about human beings is that we spend our entire lives in fear that we’ll become failures.”
By FATIMA JOY TOMAS
Press “record” button. Adjust your hair and smile.
To my 19 year-old self… Hey, how are you? Continue reading “Reply, 19 Me”
“There were nights when the moon didn’t peek on the clouds and so the fireflies were in profusion. They would transform trees into dazzling display of cosmic lights as if Christmas decided to come early in our vast corner of the earth.”
By RYAN L. FAURA
It got hit by the whirled, propeller blade of the electric fan in my room. First, pinpricks of blinking lights, then, caught by the wind that sneaked its way on the hinges of the window, it fell down, like shooting stars do sometimes- fast and quick- it hissed, and the lights, greenish, went out, blinking lights no more. Continue reading “The meditations on a firefly”
“We are the Sun and Moon that misses each other. Like two parallel lines, always moving but never intersecting.”
By ANONYMOUS
There you are walking towards me
The brightest star that outshines the dimmest skies
Together again after a long time
Nothing has changed between you and I Continue reading “Forever person”
“I felt the chills that warmed me, yet chasm warned me. I fought the pressure in me, so that tranquility would bloom with glee.”
By BRIAN PAUL STA ANA
Amidst the morn I was Aladdin’s Jasmine.
Clouds, trees and bodies of the blue sea
Chased the steps of unfreezing scene. Continue reading “No air”
“I cried a thousand tears aiming for his love. I believed he could like me but then again he just felt sorry.”
By GRAZIELLE JOYCE GEMPARO
I was broken, torn apart
I was rejected again from his heart.
I tried so hard to please him
Yet he’s numb and I’m dumb. Continue reading “Be happy, my faithful D”
