The Lost Girl

I am a girl, young in heart and in mind…
I am carefree, I enjoy doing nothing
but play,play and play…

I seldom go to school but hmp! nobody cares!
Instead,you will see me roaming around
standing at the nearby canto,
or hanging around at the sari-sari store
standing beside the jukebox stand…

One day I asked I asked my mother to teach me
how to behave, to live, and appreciate all the
beautiful things in life.
Would you like to know what she told me?
She said… " Can’t you see, I have to hurry up for my
majong session! "

So I turned to my father to console me.
But what a wonderful word he did tell me…
" Child, I have to finish my overtime work…Here’s 500 pesos,
go and ask your teacher about that question…"

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Our House Will Never Be a Home

Kring- kring  kring – kring kring the alarm clock ringing on my side, suddenly I heard my mother my voice
“ Ana, Ana wake up its already 9 am in the morning.”

Mother said, here you go again waking me up,
 its been a week since you were here coming back in Philippines bagging my whole life into disaster  

I wish you weren’t here,
I wish you wasn’t my Mother, 10 years of abandoning me?
Then suddenly you came?

What for?
Ruining my life into mess?

Knock- knock  
a sweet voice came out as the door open
“Ana, Ana my dear your late, aren’t you supposed in school by this time?’’


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