some days she would ask me

Some days she would ask me

“Why did you stay?”

And I would  answer her

“Because I love you.”

But then I thought to myself

Hey, God can answer it better

So I asked God one night

“God, why do you let me stay?”

Then God answered:

“Listen, kid—

She needs you more than you know it.

“She loves photography:

                She’s gonna stop in a sudden

                Taken by some scenery along the way

                And though you know nothing about cameras

                Of course, she’s gonna need you to carry her bag.

                She can’t wave a camera with a bridge on her shoulder.

                Also, she might gonna need someone to throw the petals on her model.

“She loves eating:

                She’s gonna have a list of all this restaurants

                From streetfoods to fine dining ones

                But then she’s gonna deny herself the meal

                She’s gonna say no to eating most of the time

                She’s gonna say she has gained too much weight

                She’s gonna tell herself she’s fine without anything in her stomach

                And you’re going to be there to change her mind every time

                You’re going to tell her she’s the sexiest woman in the world

                You’re going to tell her you left Jennifer Lawrence for her             

                Also, she likes that part of the shawarma that you can never finish.

“She loves to roam around F21:

                She’s gonna dance around the displays of blouses and jeans

                Of course, that’s about all the names of the clothing you know

                She’s gonna throw in some clothing names that you’ve never heard before

                She’s gonna try on everything, try on the hats, fathom on the prices

                And you’re gonna be there all saying, “You’d look very beautiful in that.”

                Because you know she’d always be beautiful in everything

                You’re the Craig Ferguson who’s gonna tell her everyday in every clothing she wears

                “Why, you look sensational!”

“She’ll put the world in a backpack:

                She knows nothing about the Earth but to be roamed

                She’s gonna show you pictures of beaches and wonderful tourist spots

                She’s gonna tell you every day that she wants nothing more than to travel

                She will be your ticket to the world, kid.

                She will be the needle that will prick you out of your introvert bubble

                And you’re gonna be where she wants to be

                She will need you because you are part of her world.

“You stayed because she loves the life that contains a ‘you’

You stayed because she needs you in everything she loves

You stayed because you love her through the odds

And most of all, you stayed because you make her happy.

So happy.”

two birds

two birds sitting over a wall
singing a song in unison
of love, of melodies they call
of memories that come and gone,
the truest kind of love they've won.

two birds through the night have seated
wings touching while upon a wall
passed the moonlit hours embedded
in a dream of a starlit fall,
where all their worries turn to null.

two birds sunk in bliss and in awe
not even envying the stars
of beauty from the skies we draw
of wonder from their brightly wars,
there are beams even in their scars.

two birds that are happy, are still
you can hear the tune they're singing
the world doesn't bend to the sky's will
but to the hearts that keep racing,
two birds just happily sitting.

Travelogue of an Immovable Paranoid

I only have the darkness around me
As the paranoia starts to kick in
Silently pallid and suddenly strong
These voices and pictures growing within.

I only have the silence to soothe me
And battle off the raging disturbance
Like ghosts that haunt in tempestuous ways
Though fear is scarce and worry’s abundance.

I only have a little to cling to
And it barely saves me from my own self
Nil is all it is for a fighting chance
When it is your own mind you have to delve.

A Nightshifter's Guide to the Galaxy

when morning breaks away from dawn
and you stream the sunshine along the way,
i cast a beaming smile of my own
and wear it through the rest of the day.

and when afternoon breaks away from morning,
when i've plunged beneath an ocean of sheets,
you steal into my head's silent wandering
and color it through a thousand beats.

and when evening breaks away from afternoon,
when we're riding through the sunset and dim,
we rush forth feeling chased by the moon
and wrap ourselves in a starry dream.

and then when evening slips into midnight,
when we'd return to our separate strings,
i look back to the seconds of the passing day's flight
and carry on with the happiness it brings.

Read (read: read) List

A list of all literary works I have read since I began reading the first of them.

A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes (Short Stories) - Arthur Conan Doyle
Kapitan Sino - Bob Ong
Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas - Bob Ong
MacArthur - Bob Ong
Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan - Bob Ong
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
American on Purpose - Craig Ferguson
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Inferno - Dan Brown
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
(Short Stories) - Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Noli Me Tangere - Jose Rizal
El Filibusterismo - Jose Rizal
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Revenant - Michael Punke
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
(Short Stories) - O. Henry
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
The Shining - Stephen King
Cujo - Stephen King
The Running Man - Stephen King
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
Misery - Stephen King
Needful Things - Stephen King
Gerald's Game - Stephen King
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Lisey's Story - Stephen King
Blaze - Stephen King
Duma Key - Stephen King
Under the Dome - Stephen King
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
Different Seasons - Stephen King
Joyland - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
On Writing - Stephen King
Rage - Stephen King