The Ballad of Broken Dreams

This is a deeply personal short poem I wrote on the night of 3 January 2019. It sums up and contains montage of every day scenes from the last three years. It contains footage from Katipunan, Diliman, Makati, Manila, and roads in between. With music from Winter Aid called "The Wisp Sings."

Here is the text:

Man makes plans and God laughs

I rearranged my life to chase a dream

I had it in my grasp only for it to slip away

I waited all my life to fall in love

And I did

And it was wondrous

It was beautiful

It was everything I dreamed about

And then it wasn’t

It was painful

It was destructive

It devastated me

I lost everything I ever wanted:

My hopes, my dreams, my love

And the world was cruel and ruled by evil men

And there was no reason to go on

I was at the edge and I was about to jump

But life fought its way and begged me to stay another day