Abby Bilan

I am a student of yesterday's virtues,
A dreamer of today's creations.
Someday, I'll be a great statue,
Of poetry's modern satisfactions.
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The warzone beckons me, always
So I fear to die, I refuse
Counting my numbered days
Seeking for unspoken news
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Behind your eyes, I see
Your love, your pain
You are safe, in thee
Your grace bonds your name
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The way how I compete,
I promise, I'll compete.
All it's challenge,
Sure I'll acknowledge.
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Because I have the ability,
Raising the flag of impossibility:
That thing that is unknown,
Keeps the heart of my own.
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Ako an saemong aki, Nay.
Na bakong hale sa sadiri kong Ina.
Mga anghel kan Diyos an nagdara
Sa sinapupunan hale sa kalangitan
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We're five before,
Why now four?
We're incomplete anyway,
It's your fault, I say.
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Weeping children of the nation
Sorrow of the poor
The people's temptations
Resisted by the wealth's rootless tours
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I've been waiting for a thousand times,
And achieved so my rhymes.
I've travelled so far a thousand miles,
And held my patience,
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Kaydaming pagsubok,
Sa aking isipan ay tumutumpok.
Aking pagkakamali ay laging iniisip,
Ito ri'y bumubisita maging sa aking panaginip.
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Ako ay ako,
Pwedeng magbago.
At bawat galaw,
‘Di matuklaw.
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Deep, deeper, deepest.
I don't know how to be the simplest.
What have I gotten into! ?
To be last, win or lose, between the two?
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Sa aking pagpapakilala,
Pag-ibig, aking inaalala.
Ako'y may pangarap,
Inaasahan sa hinaharap.
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The girl in green,
is what I`ve seen.
Walking along the road,
Helping a lady with her load.
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Somehow painful,
How it whispers into my soul.
The sneaking of my conscience,
Will surely lessen its sense.
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I hate judgment,
They don't get what I meant.
They base into my imperfections,
Not even in my successions.
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Aking mga mata'y sumara na't umidlip,
Ito'y lagi kong gawa pag naiinip.
Dito'y nakikita ang prinsipeng gusto,
Sinasamantalang sulyapan ng husto.
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I do expect that you believe in me,
In all ways as always to be.
Greetings to everyone,
I know, I'm the one.
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I've been trying to forget,
But every time I recall, I regret.
That sacrificial smile I see,
Is what I only have to move on, as a key.
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I stand by the corner
Of the four-walled room
Where my heart is pulverized by a hammer
Scattered by a broom
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