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Filling Life with Love

(for Serf and Mei Bernardo)

By Apolinario Villalobos

Life is hollow without love -

It’s like a stream with dried up bed

It’s like a forlorn tree bare of leaves

It’s like a field of dying, wilting grass

And a summer sky that hurts the sight…

Without a streaking bird in flight.

Life like a basket can be filled -

With gladness every day as we live

With compassion that we can show

With patience that we may persist

And love that overflows joyously, too…

Without leaving a space for sorrow.

Ang Busilak na Pag-iibigan

…nina Serf at Mei

(para kay Serf at Mei Bernardo)

Ni Apolinario Villalobos

Ang pag-iibigan ay nagsisimula

sa pagiging magkaibigan -

matalik ang samahan, walang iwanan

puno ng kasayahan, mayroon pang tuksuhan.

Umuusbong na parang halaman

nagkakaugat ng malalim –

mga daho’y yumayabong, dulot ay lilim

nagkakabulaklak, bubuyog dito’y sumisimsim.

‘Yan ang pag-iibigan nina Serf at Mei

sinubok ng mahabang panahon –

nahaluan ng mga tampuhang nakakalason

nguni’t di sila natinag, dahil parehong mahinahon.

Pag-iibigang busilak, pinaghirapang makamit

subalit dahil talagang nakatakda –

anumang agam-agam pati na pagdududa

ay nalusaw at napawi dahil sila’y para sa isa’t isa!