U n f a d e d

Old Yearnings do Not Fade

No need to give away
Dreams that haven't been steady
Just meet another day
And be again quite ready
For burning desires to burn
And give of their thousands or more
And something from this all learn
When you are wholesome and sure

Year shall be going on to lost
For everything drifts here on
Or becomes like the leaf's rust
When life from the times are gone
Decades will fly and you'll long
Every footstep that went away
Remember each touch so strong
That once was here but couldn't stay

Old yearnings do not fade
They just become so ‘newfangled’
When daylights in sunsets are made
And differently weaved and tangled

Peter S. Quinn

Fisher Kids

Song of the Boatman

  Come Sir, I shall
take you across
safe and easy
in my small boat
across the river

we are all
crossing all the time
going places
and passing stages;
let me help you
on this one, Sir

a small fee is all I ask
and really it'll be a
pleasant journey across;

you can put your
hands in the cool water
while I paddle us across

I was born here
in the sheds along the shore;
I learned my trade
as soon as I could walk;

all my life has been here
and this is where
I shall be all my days

It's all good, Sir, for me
if I can do a good turn
as you pass by;

and so you might
also do me a good turn
at the end
giving me a deserved fee
that I can bring to my
wife and children

Come Sir, I shall
take you across
safe and easy
in my small boat
across the river

Raj Arumugam

Cebu - e n g a g e m e n t

R o n a l d  'a m a t s' O r i l l o  M a t a  +  L i v  G o n z a l e s

Busay and Ma. Luisa Subdivision, Cebu City

with Lyndon Naya, James Diayon and Marlon Capuyan

A  D I S T A N T  L O V E  A F F A I R

I can see you, you can see me
We feel the same in hearts and minds

Love perceives no boundary
It makes solid everything it binds

Distant hearts that never see
Each other's faults or inadequacy

Unspoken pledge we shall agree
To hold each other though we're far away

Distance is never an issue,
To two hearts that beat as one.

Never faltering, never untrue,
Promises are kept and never undone.

The thing we had felt so genuine,
But things like this end this way.

To let you go is a painful thing
Particularly when you cry because of me

I'm bounded by your undying love.

You've owned my heart ask the heavens above.

A distant love affair was what we had

I'll see you my love,

I'll see you my love

Alfredo Alave