• Noel Cabangon

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Haven

Chances are impermanent
Can past be turned back?
 
Do you still remember
When the two of us first met?
Childhood years
Surrounded1 by flowers and plants
That's where we started
To dream and recite poems
 
Do you still remember
The heart I carved on the mango tree?
And the hibiscus flower I gave you
Holding hands at the shore
As free as the birds is
The memory of our past
 
The trees and plants
Are part2 of our memories
In the passing of time
Why did we also have to go?
Chances are impermanent
Can past be turned back?
 
Now you came back
And your excitement is just like mine
To see the previous haven
Home of our poems and dreams
Now it's gone
Where to search still?
 
Time passes by
As part of our memories
The trees and plants
Why did they have to go?
Chances are impermanent
Can past be turned back?
 
Time passes by
As part of our memories
The trees and plants
Why did they have to go?
Chances are impermanent
Can past be turned back?
 
  • 1. "piling" means like "in the arms of"
  • 2. "kabiyak" means "spouse" or something like "the other half of a whole"
Filipino/Tagalog
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