Kung Bakit ako Tamad Magmahal

I lost love once.
I walked around the whole next day
with haze following my every gaze.
My every breath was dry and the air
seemed to cut through my throat just to
remind me that I had not forgotten to wake up.
Sleep was where I brought my soul
when I grew tired of running after him in my head. But
I never really stopped. And
once I awoke only to find a stranger in the mirror,
My face so defeated by gravity.
My youth, it seemed, had hopped
on days like they were years and
thought of no way to return. And
if not for it all, I would not be so grateful
to have discovered the strange comfort of crying
with my head lodged through my car's steering wheel.

You say "I love you" is not enough.
But I tell you it is.
Because for a time I waited for those words
to return, but they never did.