Tag-tuyo

Naubos na ang luha sa pagagos sa aking mukha...
Ngunit puso'y patuloy sa paghapdi--punit-punit, pira-piraso, at pisak na.
Hindi na kasi nadala, kung bakit nagmahal pa, kung bakit umasa pa.
Madala ka na. Sadyang ganyan sila.
Iiwanan ka lang.
Sasaktan.

Bruises

What's one more broken heart?
When I have lived through so many...

Broken vows for sickness and in health...
Thieves of consciousness and dignity...

A con artist to attain higher learning..
Pretenders that hook me in but only to disown me..

Then came you out of the blue,
Filling me with hope and gaity...

Yet leaving me now hodgepodged
as your mere matey.

Let me then face the wall that tells me,
Surely this new bruise I shall survive definitely.