Pacific Hernandez

Sa isang mag-anak ay meron pa kaya
Na sa ama't ina'y higit pang dakila
Na kahit sa angkang mahirap nagmula
Ang para sa anak, lahat ay ginawa
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When she was far away, to her I brought you near
And in time of discord, for you I intervened
When she's in doubt I told her how you really feel
When you're at fault apologies I brought to her
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Yesterday, you were only a whisper away
But fearing that the meaning of love might only be lost in the air
Words remained unspoken
Till you became a thousand yesterdays away
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Into this world naked I came
Because naked You sent me
But temptation is everywhere
Widely scattered on my way
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Why are fish uneducated
When they frequently go to school
If shoal we call a group of fish,
Sometimes there's no fish in a shoal
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Sa isang tubigan, nagkatipon-tipon
Magkakaibigang mula dito't doon
May hugis ay haba, may hugis ay lapad
May galing sa ilog, may galing sa dagat
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Who invented the wheel?
It is an F. A. Q.
That is here eversince
The wheel came into view
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And why oh why Kiwi, you a bird we must call
When you don't have a wing that you can say you own

There's nothing I can do but it was nature's joke
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Ang sabi mo noon, ako ang mahal mo
Kahit nandadalang na itong buhok ko
Nakakita ka lang ng mas pogi't guwapo
Ay lumimot ka na, iniwanan ako
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Ang sabi ng puno sa mababang damo
Hanggang diyan ka lang ba sa may paanan ko
Tumulad ka sa akin, matikas ang tindig
Kaya kong abutin, mataas na langit
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Sa ating buhay ay mayroon pa kaya
Na sa ating ina'y higit pang dakila
Ina na nagtaya ng sariling buhay
Nang sa mundong ito'y tayo ay isilang
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On my way to this world, I did first see your light
Light that guided the ways of the first pair of hands
that placed me on the bed, be at my mother's side
From the dark little world wherein, before, I was
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The tree said to the grass, 'Is it your contentment
to be just at my foot, remain under my shade?
Why don't you do as I, my aims are very high.
I want to reach the moon and the stars in the sky
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Each time I'm on the boulevard
You're there with me, walk by my side
But talk to me you'd never do
A thing I would expect of you
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Sore thumb, yes, it rhymes with numb
A thing I painfully out did find
When I hit the nail right on the head
Did'nt know my thumb was near beneath
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My memories of you, like waves keep coming back
Add torment and torture onto my troubled mind
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Iterred in a mausoleum don't let me be
Nor in a metal box lay the remains of me
Be buried underground, six feet it is too deep
Only a shallow grave is what for me I wish
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A poet is not a one person,
He is the poem he writes
Glad yesterday, today he is
but tomorrow is sad
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From between the pages of an old dusty book
A yellowing paper, with trembling hands I took
And with tears in my eyes again and again I read
The message/writ therein, I refuse to believe
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Nang ako'y bata pa'y nagtataka ako
Kung bakit lagi nang may ulol na aso
Ito ay hinahabol ng mga tao
May dalang pamalo na kahoy o tubo
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