**author's note: this is, I dare say, an experimental poem. I was struggling to write what I wanted to write and had to revert from one language to another to come out with what I wanted to put into writing. Let's just say that some lines sound better in the language they had been set. But then, it did come out pretty decently, I think. thoughts anyone? please? :P

Iba- iba ang kwento ng pag-ibig.

Merong masaya at nakakatuwa,

meron ring malungkot at nakakaulila.

It enables you in ways you can never imagine.

With it, one leaps over tall mountains in a single bound,

or swims through oceans in a single breath

yet it leaves you breathless in the moments you least expect.

May taglay na kalabuan rin kasi

itong palaisipang pag-ibig na ito.

Walang natatanging formula na maaaring sundin

upang makamit ang inaasam ng nakararami

No idea is more romanticized than love itself.

None more unfathomable, incomprehensible

or even seemingly unattainable

Ngunit sa dami ng nagnanais

na itong mapagbirung tadhana’y makamit

tunay na katakataka

na walang alituntuning nailapat o

naibahagi man lang ang kahit sinong ninuno

na nagbigay malay sa kaganapang ito.

The steps have yet to be set in stone

There is no wrong or right way

to get to where you want to go.

It’s just a matter of knowing

if it’s the right thing

at the right time

with the right person

Sapagkat kadalasan, hindi man sadya

nasa tamang timing lang ng pagkakataon.

Finding the right person under the right circumstances

and that is all that matters.