ONCE UPON A TIME: BAGO MAG-TIME

Note:  Para po ito sa mga estudyanteng katulad ko na minsan sa buhay ay nakaranas na ring pumasok sa klase hindi upang makinig at matuto kundi para magpalipas lamang ng oras ( kaysa naman umabsent). Sa ganyang intensyon, marahil isa sa mga sitwasyon sa ibaba ay nasubukan niyo na rin. Ngunit sigurado ako, iisa lang din ang napala natin: nalugi tayo sa mga hiyas na kaalaman na pinalampas mismo ng ating sarili !

30 minutes before mag-time,

Mix-mix ang ginagawa like prime na prime

May routines na parang loner lang ang drama

Sabay kalokohan with mga kakosa

For example, gawa ka ng doodle art

Or you imagine nalang ika’y nagdadart

30 minutes before the time nagvavandal in your chair

Kahit punishable by dismissal, the hell you care!

Still it feels na ika’y bored na bored

Pakishout out naman “sana uwian na lord!”

If hindi na maka-wait, chitchat muna with cute seatmate

Share-share with your interests, yun pala makikipagdate

Kung hindi pa you satisfied, look ka nalang around

Kunin mo your Ipod, saka pahinaan ang sound

Sabay critic sa outfit ng classmate mong great pretender

Na pinapasok ng guard de  uniporme like of bartender

Dahil ‘di mo na ma-dare ang  pagiging forever alone

Kahit bawal sa klase,  io-on mo ang phone

Text-text with your close friend na nasa next row

Asking anong color combination ang  ginamit nya for eyeshadow

Lumipas ang hinihingal na oras, 30 minutes before the time

You are gone na from your assigned seatplan

Magchichismims sa showbiz issues ng kasalukuyan

Will tell who’s your crush sa room, saka sabay tititigan

Frequently asked question, nakawatch ka ng PBB?

Oral recitation ni ma’am, bigla kang mapipipi

Class lesson ngayon pero ang tapik ay dota

Find your partner ang peg, didiskarte ang partida

30 minutes before the time, siningit ang hallucinations

Magdedaydream kay crush, ang wagas na inspiration

If may extra load you, magmomobile internet

Touch pad, iphone, labas lahat ng gadget!

Iisipin mo na how’s your facebook notifications

Ichi-change ng friend mo ang tapik, mga bading daw ang one direction

Maya-maya may magpapafollow sa twitter

You will write your email add sabay kagat sa snickers

Eh kasi naman you are done eating na

Ang next destination, sa c.r. ang punta

Gagamitin ang char-char na sign language na mali naman

Gets pa rin ng parts mo kaya sabay kayong nagsilabasan

In the mean time, ang seatmate mong weirdo

Found a friend sa liwanag, naaliw sa shadow

Si prof na todo explain, bulky charts ay hinilera sa pisara

Itong seatmate mo naman, nagshadow art ala el gamma penumbra

When you saw your reflections sa salamin ng bintana

Congrats! Good for you, nareaize mong ikaw pala’y swabeng bata

                So you exposed your DSLR at nagtake ng vanity pics

Assuming na kahit sa piktyur mo lang may mainlab na chiks

30 minutes before the time, you’re like OFW na kaytagal nakabalik

Kung maka restroom ay wagas, kahit reasons mo ay fake

Go back to reality, kamusta ang online games?

Ang powers, ang characers, ang magic, ang flames?

‘Di pa you nakontento, nagshare ka pa ng knowledge

Pornsites na peborit ever since your tender age

Hininga ay amoy the bar, nalalanghap ng ‘yong kausap

Inosenteng ballpen imagined like legs, kinagat ng walang kahirap-hirap

Aba, it’s not just your bibig ang napakalikot

Tinker tinker with the beat of your fingers, ulong paikot-ikot

Daig mo pa ang volume ng lapel ni ma’am

Hampas ng palm mo on the table, feel na feel mong magdrum!

Si ma’am the best, walang bukas kung maglecture

Ang nakaupo sa front row, pasipsip para secure

Ang anticipation niya’y you are listening, ikaw pala’y tulala lang

And less than a minute, wow tulog na si manang!

Finally time na, suddenly nag-announce si teacher

Bukas you will have a long quiz na pagkaover-over

About the leksyon na natackle 30 minutes before the time

And bigla mong narealize para kang na-wansapanataym! :P

THE SYMPTOMS

Fear not the symptoms, fear more its cause

A dark shadow is more fierce than a body that's loss

Once darkness removes the sight of blindness itself

And wisdom will be locked forever in the shelf.

Worry more not in the absence of food abundance

But in the presence of gold that makes poor of the richness

For whatever is the exit shall bear the same cost of the entrance

What was one a waste will never happen to be worthless

It's one thing of ambiguity if you have nothing to do

Yet it's another complexion if you will do nothing

One day a square will employ in a circle of companies

Then a man's knowledge and time will be clothed in small office

Oh space! You are now too valuable to people

An inch of you to a household is already a temple

Beware because homes will no more have houses

Never you can find one, it's all filled with emptiness

People forced to convenient will be marching to the past

Trees will give birth to buildings, building that will not last

As power plants demolish the greenfields, little live eradicate

It's a man 's consent alone, that's why the Earth cannot appreciate.

Fear not the symptoms, fear more its cause

Hunger will feed you and make you carry the cross

The only job available is serving your very ego

By seizing a flower's space, you'll be a victim of your own fiasco.

What suffer a man is experiencing

What pain the world is giving

Are not the real problems you are facing 

But are just starting symptoms of the ending

Hunger, homelessness, unemployment , nature devastation

And the rest that brings you to the world's destruction

Foolish rational beings! Poisoned ignorants of the potion

The culprit is in the society, the real evil is oppression.

THE POOREST OF THE POOR

The poorest of the poor are not the ones without a house,

But the ones who have not yet found their home

For it is better to live a life of a mouse

Than to own the world's wealth but lost to where you belong.

The poorest of the poor are not the ones who have  no land

But the ones who walk in solitude across the beaches and sand

For it is useless to embrace a very vast territory

If you can see just  yourself as your only memory.

The poorest of the poor are not those who are out of school

But the ones in high institutions yet think so low like a fool

For it is worthless to pretend high as if you know everything

And then once you work, it's like you have learned nothing.

The poorest of the poor are not those with no money

But those who are ignorant how to be happy without the peny

For it is priceless to give and share the blessings for free

Real happiness is infinite, it doesn't have currency.

The poorest of the poor are not those with physical incapabilities

But those who are physically complete but don't use their abilities

For it is more admirable that you are functioning behind what's lacking

Than to be complete and normal but is not at all serving.

The poorest of the poor are not the ones without occupation

But those who waste opportunity because of high expectation

Perhaps it is better to be neglected because you tried

Than to choose like a superior to beyond what is implied.

The poorest of the poor are not those with undesirable faces

But the pretenders to be beautiful in all circumstances

For it is better to stay undesirable yet harms no one

Than to look so beautiful but always hurt someone.

The poorest of the poor are not those who are in prison

But those who are jailed because of no justly reason

For it is more fair to be a sinner yet still live so free

Than to repent for the things you haven't done  and pay the fee.

The poorest of the  poor are not those who know less in this world

But those who know less about eternity

For it is more heavenly to live not so worldly

Knowledge is only humane, it is wisdom that is holy.

The poorest of the poor are not the ones who aren't rich

But those who do not have God in their lives

The poorest of the poor are not tho ones who doesn't have

But those who doesn't know how to truly love.