(100 Love Sonnets, 1960)
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
Busy is the game that you play
Opportunities knock on you like a warm breeze in the morning
Beautiful and audacious are your dreams…
Going steady like the waves are your moments
Amicably in perseverance you carry on.
Misapprehending you at first glance is conventional
Understanding you in time is exceptional.
Tomorrow often greets you a passion for odds,
Along crossroad of chances you take the steps
No more, no less you admirably grow - to find the treasure where true love exists.
When do we say we know Love?
When do we ask how to Love?
When do we learn how to Love?
And when do we feel Love?
Is it in the moment when we Smile?
Is it in the moment when we Think?
Is it in the moment when we Wonder?
Or is it in the moment when we have a Smile back?
You know what, I don’t really KNOW.
And I think, it doesn’t matter if you know.
What matters is you can feel with your Heart,
and you can see with your Mind.
The Heart knows all the feelings and the Mind knows what you feel.
“If you know you have Love in your Heart, you have been touched by God.
If you have experienced Love in your Life, you have been blessed by God.”
Let us always open our Hearts and Minds to HIM…
Quetal ya kaha el di atun mga amigo y amiga este mga tiempo?
Alegre era sila maskin tormento el vida ta queda.
Era, tiene pirmi rason para cre y re na este dia ya dale ara.
Maskin serka y lejos na maga uban, era tiene lang hora para man hunto hunto.
Bunito gat pirmi el tiempo si tan hunto hunto el mga gente.
Mucho kun quien ta konose nuevo y mucho cosa para man alegria.
Tiene ta kunta largo el istoria, otro ta pikura pa lang prinsipya.
Maskin donde, nu puede kita nega, el gente nu puede keda solo.
El alegria ta tiene kun ta puede kita dale, kun ta puede kita ayuda..
El alegria ta lyiga si ta ase manera keda sincero na kosa ta ta dale y hinde ta ase loko.
Ansina lang manera, el otro gente ta cre na abilidad de un gente..
Ansina lang, el gente ay tiene paz, y tiene otro para ama kunele…
Pureso, no mas aplihi kun ta konose gente - bueno man o malo..
Pirmi lang acorda dale kon todo corazon y pone amor.
Todo ese tiene rason, para ayuda kanatun keda mas alegre na ondo del vida…
Pirmi ta ayuda el Dios si ta ama kita.. Vamos a Zamboanga…
As I sit at the rooftop of Laviña, I gazed at the dark sky and saw the stars -
Stars that sparkle and stars that are brightly white.
I twitched my eye to find a very distant star, and relaxed to see the very visible ones.
In a distant, a cool breeze approached.
I felt the cool air touched my cheek as it enveloped me in an embrace.
What a lovely feeling, I felt.
My heart told me, I was not alone.