Thanks.

Dear God,

I just celebrated my 21st birthday last Friday. I feel so old to have wishes, so I could feel sending "Thank You's." for letting me embark in this stage of my life...

21 huh, I really feel excited just on the thought of it. I Wonder how big and bashful your plans for me. But please extend it to my family, friends and to every people I will be meeting in my life. Make their days challenging and distant to their dreams, and lighten up the future path they have to seek.

Thanks for my mama and papa, my ates and my kuya and the wonderful titas, titos, and lolas. And of course, my cute pinsans, my choirmates, classmates, schoolmates, professors and teachers.

And for the great YOU, for watching my every step.

Because I COuld not Stop for Death

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

Imagine if death can be so soft, serene and tranquil, just like how Dickinson shared it.

lasting...

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.

 -- William Carlos Williams

I really love the deepening structure of this poem. It reflects many things that we dont
seem to matter. But really matters. I hope you can feel the same as I do. Enjoy Life!