When you can't speak, WRITE

Because I am not a good talker, I usually write everything I want to say.

This one goes for my sister who deserves so much more than a poem.

16 Years Older

I was only five when she went abroad

To help our parents buy us food

She was just twenty two when she left home

She had to work far all alone

So I always wonder what it’s like

Growing up with her at my side

She was so far, so far away

I never knew what she has to say

If life was just easy and money not scarce

She would have not work many miles afar

She went there to help our parents make a living

She’s there to help us realize our dream

My only childhood memory with her

Was when she bathes me in a well

I can never thank her big enough

For the great sacrifice she did for us

She’s thirty seven when she fell in love and decides

To go to Down Under and be a bride

The situation and place may have change

But some things always remain the same

I was five then, now I’m twenty three

Still wondering what she has to say

‘cause my sister is three thousand miles away

And she’s sixteen years older than me

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And this is all about my precious childhood memories.

Growing Up Sunshine

Growing up near green fields with a lot of carabao grass

Playing with my little sister letting time pass

Wake up in the morning and hear the birds sing

Feel the soft sunlight as it touches my skin

Early in the morning searching for green pasture

Sticking up with my big brother doing his chore

Riding on Julio’s back heading to the river

Time for the big fellow to bathe in the water

Picking grasses’ leaves under the midday sun

Playing little chefs with my sister for fun

Boiling mud and clay trying to make desserts

We both ended up staining our shirts

Standing by the window watching the setting sun

As many birds gather and sing at the pond

At night it’s so quiet and you can soundly sleep

And dream of memories that play for keeps

Life goes like this in my growing up years

Which I now reminisce with my eyes in tears

Fun and happy are my memories back then

 Now my growing up sunshine is never the same

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