Pagkukubli.

ang mga bulaklak ay nalalanta

sa ilalim ng aking mga paa

at ako ay nababasa

sa ilalim ng liwanag niya.

pinulot ko ang sarili

at pinilit tumayo ng matuwid

ikinulong ang bahaghari

sa kadiliman ng silid.

pinagdamot sa sarili ang tawa

ng sanggol na sa sinapupunan niluwa

---at ang magiging kasukdulan,

ang lahat ng sakit

ay magiging kathang isip.

tulad ng pait

na sa hangi'y pinapaihip. 

   My first poem written in Filipino here in my blog. I'm really trying to dig in my mental dictionary for filipino words, and what a shame.. only a few did I remembered and can be rhymed with the next words. To think the words are just simple Tagalog. In the past, I used to make essays, poems and articles in filipino. That is when our teacher requires us for it is a part of the curriculum. Way back then, i can even impress my teachers because I am so poetic and i use deep Tagalog words. I love filipino language, I love my native tongue and it is a shame not to acknowledge and use it, specially to devastate it through erroneous usage of words. 

 I should encourage myself and others to read more articles, literary works written in Filipino. So that we will never ever forget it. The worst thing that might happen if we will not practice the language more often is to be oblivious of the native dialect, and we fear that to happen.