Pag-Ibig
Noel Cabangon
Nong tangan ng nanay
Ang munti mong mga kamay
Ika'y tuwang-tuwa,
Panatag ang loob sa damdaming
Ika'y mahal
Noong nakilala mo ang una mong sinta
Umapaw ang saya at siya'y ibang-iba
Sinasamsam ang bawat gunita.
Hindi mo malimutan kung kailan nagsimulang
Matuto kung papaanong magmahal
At di mo malimutan kung kailan mo natikman
Ang una mong halik
Yakap na napakahigpit
Pag-ibig na tunay hanggang langit.
Nang tayo'y magkakilala nang hindi sinasadya,
Ikaw lang ang napansin,
Nahuli sa isang tingin
At sa pagbati mong napakalambing.
Hindi ko malimutan kung kailan nagsimulang
Matutong ikaw lang ang mahalin
At di ko malimutan kung kailan ko natikman
Ang tamis ng iyong halik
Yakap na napakahigpit
Pag-ibig mong tunay hanggang langit.
Huwag Kang Mangako Ng Kailanpaman
Gary Granada
Huwag kang mangako ng kailanpaman
At baka 'di ko mapapantayan
Huwag kang mangako ng habangbuhay
At baka ‘di mo ako mahintay.
Huwag kang mangusap ng kailanpaman
Kahit magdusa't daigdig ma'y pasan
Di kailangang matinik na landas
Upang patunayang pagsuyo'y wagas.
Sana nga bukas tulad ngayon
Ang ating pagsasama
Sana paglipas ng panahon
‘Di ka mag-iiba.
Ngunit ‘wag mong sabihin ang kailanpaman
Tama na sa 'king ibigin minsan
‘Wag mong sabihin ga’no katagal
Tama na’ng ga’no mo ‘ko kamahal
Ngunit huwag kang mangako ng kailanpaman
At baka di ‘ko matutumbasan
At kung ang ating landas magsanga
Malayang damdamin ang magpapasya.
Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
Pablo Neruda
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes, I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like she was before my kisses.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
And these the last verses that I write for her.
Anya Ngay
Buhay sa isang pusong iniwan
Ay pag-aantay na lamang
Sa panahong muling mapagbigyan
At masilayan ang mundo niyang
Dati’y tinirhan.
Anya ngay, maghihintay pa ba
Sa isandaang panaginip
At buong gabing dasal ng luha?
Anya ngay, kKailan pa hihimlay?
Sa unan ng katahimikan ang puso’y pakinggan
Oras ‘di maghihintay,
Patuloy pa rin ang daloy ng aking luha
Anya ngay?
Ang langit ay tumigil, mga tala’y tumamlay
Bukas at makalawa sa’yo pa rin maghihintay
Imulat na’ng mga mata, ikaw bumangon na
Sa pagkabulag mo, ikaw ay lumaya.