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Sonya Florentino

Manila, Philippines (residing NYC)

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Manila, Philippines (residing NYC)

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What for dreams
If you must shatter them
What for these wings
If I can't use them

What for the light
And then extinguish it
What for love
But then withhold it

What for you
What for me
What for this hunger
Devouring me

What for love
What for life
This lie
What for, why

What for me
Being free
Love is slowly
Killing me

Sonya Florentino

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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Patti Masterman 07 October 2009

Wow oh wow, Sonya! This is splendid and perfect and makes me want to cry: 'What for dreams If you must shatter them What for these wings If I can't use them' and the whole poem is the same, filled with pain and hopeless submission. You are melancholy's baby..(smile)

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